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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	281.5	73.5
2	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	258.6	59.7
3	Griffith University Griffith University	255.4	94.8
3	Monash University Monash University	255.4	100.0
5	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	252.4	71.7
6	Taipei Medical University Taipei Medical University	246.4	59.2
7	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	243.0	84.9
7	University of Sydney University of Sydney	243.0	91.6
9	Emory University Emory University	237.6	61.8
10	King's College London King's College London	237.3	62.4
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	235.7	68.5
12	Ghent University Ghent University	235.2	61.8
13	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	233.2	66.2
14	Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University	228.3	58.9
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	225.1	58.9
16	Deakin University Deakin University	223.8	75.4
17	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	219.9	63.8
18	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	217.8	80.3
19	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	217.3	55.5
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton	217.1	48.1
21	University of Roma - Tor Vergata University of Roma - Tor Vergata	216.1	52.3
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	215.3	72.1
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	214.1	48.7
24	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	213.7	55.2
25	Yale University Yale University	212.1	53.7
26	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	209.9	51.0
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	209.6	71.5
28	Sichuan University Sichuan University	209.5	51.3
29	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	209.3	50.1
30	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	208.7	79.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020