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	University of Chicago University of Chicago	306.0	100.0
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	282.2	97.6
3	Harvard University Harvard University	269.3	86.2
4	Columbia University Columbia University	264.2	91.8
5	New York University New York University	258.2	90.8
6	Stanford University Stanford University	256.3	86.2
7	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	238.6	74.5
8	London School of Economics and Political Science	237.7	84.5
9	Boston College Boston College	237.4	79.8
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	235.8	83.1
11	University of Southern California University of Southern California	235.0	80.6
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	231.0	74.9
13	Duke University Duke University	228.7	73.3
14	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	227.6	76.1
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	226.3	79.5
16	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	225.9	72.9
17	Cornell University Cornell University	224.2	76.9
18	London Business School London Business School	222.4	72.1
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	221.8	68.8
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	219.3	76.5
21	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	218.5	77.6
22	Yale University Yale University	217.5	62.1
23	Northwestern University Northwestern University	213.0	68.0
24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	211.1	67.1
25	Monash University Monash University	210.3	93.0
26	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	210.0	72.1
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	209.7	67.5
28	Renmin University of China Renmin University of China	207.9	86.9
29	HEC Paris HEC Paris	206.5	65.3
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	206.0	69.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020