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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	400.6	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	304.1	77.8
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	300.5	76.4
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	291.3	64.3
5	University of Chicago University of Chicago	279.7	61.6
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	272.5	71.5
7	University of Washington University of Washington	270.0	66.1
8	Columbia University Columbia University	268.7	68.6
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	254.7	60.2
10	Duke University Duke University	248.7	62.8
11	Princeton University Princeton University	248.3	54.5
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	244.9	57.3
13	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	233.9	54.2
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	232.7	61.3
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	232.4	56.7
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	228.0	74.5
17	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	212.5	51.8
18	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	205.4	47.4
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	205.2	60.6
20	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	193.3	60.8
21	University of Oxford University of Oxford	193.2	62.3
22	Yale University Yale University	190.2	60.3
23	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	187.6	54.8
24	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	186.9	58.8
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	186.6	53.7
26	University College London University College London	184.3	63.2
27	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	181.3	55.1
28	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	180.6	51.8
29	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	178.6	46.6
30	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	174.2	49.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020