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	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	320.8	58.2
2	University College London University College London	320.1	63.8
3	Harvard University Harvard University	307.9	100.0
4	Columbia University Columbia University	290.4	51.0
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	264.8	24.9
6	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	239.7	35.9
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	233.2	47.1
8	Stanford University Stanford University	231.8	57.0
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	229.2	46.4
10	University of Zurich University of Zurich	228.8	41.9
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	219.3	57.5
12	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	218.9	18.4
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	218.0	58.5
14	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	209.9	50.5
15	Kyoto University Kyoto University	209.6	27.1
16	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	208.2	63.4
17	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	206.7	48.7
18	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	206.4	35.4
19	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	206.2	45.9
20	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University	204.3	9.4
21	Yale University Yale University	204.2	51.4
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	203.2	46.6
23	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	201.4	61.8
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	201.1	56.8
25	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	199.5	29.6
26	Imperial College London Imperial College London	197.5	47.5
27	University of Washington University of Washington	194.8	51.6
28	Cornell University Cornell University	194.4	43.7
29	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg	193.9	23.5
30	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	193.0	51.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020