2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.(Methodology)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	286.9	100.0
2	Xidian University Xidian University	228.7	66.7
3	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	204.5	52.3
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	198.9	53.6
5	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	198.1	58.3
6	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	197.2	44.9
7	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	194.6	48.4
8	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	193.9	35.7
9	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	193.8	41.0
10	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University	189.8	33.0
11	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	186.5	48.7
12	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	182.5	48.7
13	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	178.4	28.3
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	177.8	42.1
15	Hunan University Hunan University	177.6	30.1
16	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	172.2	43.1
17	University of Twente University of Twente	171.8	42.8
18	University of Trento University of Trento	171.4	31.0
19	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	170.1	30.8
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	169.2	42.5
21	Nanjing University Nanjing University	169.1	41.4
22	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	168.4	36.0
22	University of Iceland University of Iceland	168.4	23.6
24	Boston University Boston University	165.4	25.5
24	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	165.4	23.6
26	University of Valencia University of Valencia	163.9	32.2
27	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	163.5	36.6
28	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	159.3	36.3
28	Lancaster University Lancaster University	159.3	22.6
30	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	158.9	31.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020