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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	300.9	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	255.6	62.3
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	252.5	66.9
4	University College London University College London	229.4	64.2
5	King's College London King's College London	228.3	53.6
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	218.2	65.4
7	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	217.1	54.2
8	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	216.7	60.5
9	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	216.6	50.1
10	Leiden University Leiden University	212.0	48.8
11	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	209.8	52.9
12	New York University New York University	209.3	46.6
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	209.1	51.4
14	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	209.0	62.7
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	207.7	51.8
16	University of Munich University of Munich	205.8	50.5
17	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	204.0	50.5
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich	203.3	56.0
19	Utrecht University Utrecht University	202.2	50.9
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London	202.1	43.4
21	Yale University Yale University	200.2	49.7
22	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	197.8	51.2
23	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	197.4	49.5
24	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	197.2	37.7
25	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	195.5	44.5
26	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	193.3	48.3
27	Duke University Duke University	193.2	48.9
28	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna	192.7	46.8
29	Cornell University Cornell University	192.2	45.5
30	University of Southern California University of Southern California	191.2	37.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020