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 Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	307.3	100.0
2	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	243.3	65.1
3	University of Vienna University of Vienna	233.1	70.3
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	227.2	73.0
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University	224.7	70.6
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	223.2	68.4
7	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	222.4	67.9
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	219.6	65.1
9	Northwestern University Northwestern University	219.4	62.4
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	219.0	67.1
11	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	218.9	66.6
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	218.1	59.3
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	217.2	59.6
14	University of Zurich University of Zurich	215.1	64.3
15	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	211.0	60.7
16	University of Munich University of Munich	196.3	58.4
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	195.5	60.4
18	Cornell University Cornell University	192.1	51.3
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	189.9	55.4
20	University of Southern California University of Southern California	186.8	55.1
21	KU Leuven KU Leuven	183.2	49.9
22	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	183.0	56.9
23	University of Oregon University of Oregon	178.3	44.9
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	178.2	45.3
25	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	177.9	51.3
26	University of Mainz University of Mainz	177.1	47.8
27	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	173.3	46.4
28	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	172.3	47.5
29	London School of Economics and Political Science	168.5	42.1
30	Stanford University Stanford University	167.2	44.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020