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	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	294.6	100.0
2	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	285.7	95.2
3	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	257.7	78.9
4	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	250.6	80.1
5	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	222.2	67.5
6	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	217.6	64.4
7	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	217.5	61.7
8	University of Florida University of Florida	216.8	66.1
9	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	215.2	62.0
10	Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing Forestry University	207.2	56.6
11	Sichuan Agricultural University Sichuan Agricultural University	206.6	59.4
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	199.8	57.9
13	Aarhus University Aarhus University	199.7	54.7
14	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	199.1	51.5
15	Beijing Forestry University Beijing Forestry University	196.1	56.3
16	University of Guelph University of Guelph	195.3	53.5
17	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	194.0	49.6
18	Yangzhou University Yangzhou University	193.4	54.0
19	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	193.0	54.5
20	King Saud University King Saud University	192.6	42.3
21	Institut Agro Institut Agro	191.9	54.0
22	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	191.6	48.6
23	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	191.5	59.7
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	190.9	50.8
25	Lanzhou University Lanzhou University	190.6	47.4
26	Northeast Agricultural University Northeast Agricultural University	190.4	50.0
27	Ghent University Ghent University	189.8	49.3
28	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	188.8	52.0
29	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	188.6	46.2
30	Shandong Agricultural University Shandong Agricultural University	188.5	50.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020