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	Yale University Yale University	304.3	100.0
2	Harvard University Harvard University	269.8	98.3
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	255.6	98.8
4	University of Chicago University of Chicago	255.5	97.1
5	New York University New York University	232.8	96.2
6	Columbia University Columbia University	232.4	97.5
7	Stanford University Stanford University	221.8	82.5
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	216.4	87.1
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	213.2	87.3
10	Duke University Duke University	205.5	78.1
11	Georgetown University Georgetown University	190.7	70.7
12	University of Virginia University of Virginia	189.7	70.1
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	184.8	70.4
14	Florida State University Florida State University	183.6	78.4
15	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	177.1	73.3
16	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	172.8	66.2
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	166.9	63.1
18	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	166.5	66.2
19	Cornell University Cornell University	158.5	52.8
20	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	157.5	74.7
21	Northwestern University Northwestern University	156.6	63.1
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	156.1	76.6
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California	153.8	57.6
24	George Mason University George Mason University	152.3	65.6
25	Michigan State University Michigan State University	147.6	67.4
26	Northeastern University (Boston) Northeastern University (Boston)	147.2	65.0
27	University at Albany (State University of New York)	146.3	61.1
28	University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati	146.0	68.1
28	University of Oxford University of Oxford	146.0	63.4
30	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	145.4	43.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020