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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	248.7	76.4
2	Temple University Temple University	248.0	67.1
3	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	237.5	72.2
4	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	233.5	63.1
5	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	226.6	59.6
6	Georgia State University Georgia State University	221.0	63.8
7	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	213.3	55.9
8	Harvard University Harvard University	211.7	100.0
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	211.1	60.0
10	University of Arizona University of Arizona	209.2	54.6
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	206.7	66.4
12	Wuhan University Wuhan University	204.8	96.1
13	McGill University McGill University	203.9	54.2
14	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	202.6	48.2
15	University of South Florida University of South Florida	199.7	57.6
16	University of Washington University of Washington	198.7	70.5
17	University of Virginia University of Virginia	197.9	49.6
18	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	197.7	61.2
19	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	196.0	50.1
20	The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas	195.1	51.5
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	193.0	64.2
22	Arizona State University Arizona State University	191.9	54.6
23	Nanjing University Nanjing University	190.6	67.5
24	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	185.5	69.5
25	New York University New York University	185.3	49.2
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	184.5	57.6
27	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	176.3	57.2
27	University of Sydney University of Sydney	176.3	60.0
29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	174.8	49.6
30	University of Southern California University of Southern California	174.6	48.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020