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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	364.7	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	325.6	55.9
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	319.3	62.4
4	Stanford University Stanford University	319.2	63.7
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	292.4	64.9
6	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	280.1	28.8
7	University of Washington University of Washington	274.2	59.9
8	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	273.5	58.3
8	University College London University College London	273.5	57.3
10	Columbia University Columbia University	271.5	50.6
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	264.0	65.7
12	Yale University Yale University	257.2	52.5
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	244.0	50.2
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	237.5	48.4
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	220.7	60.8
16	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	219.3	28.7
17	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	218.0	27.7
18	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	213.6	37.7
19	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	211.8	21.3
20	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	208.9	57.4
21	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	208.0	48.1
22	Cornell University Cornell University	207.9	62.6
23	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	206.8	53.3
24	Princeton University Princeton University	206.0	31.9
25	Cardiff University Cardiff University	205.9	28.1
26	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	203.1	69.1
27	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	201.7	28.1
28	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	201.2	62.0
29	University of Alberta University of Alberta	199.1	36.1
30	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University	199.0	18.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020