2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.(See full Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	324.5	45.6	76.9	77.3	100.0	86.6
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	307.7	38.3	84.1	78.9	90.5	79.1
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	291.9	35.3	85.7	72.1	56.4	100.0
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	266.4	100.0	80.4	60.5	73.9	0.0
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	265.7	44.4	77.5	69.9	79.8	50.0
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	260.0	33.4	80.7	73.8	60.3	70.7
7	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	255.9	78.9	91.3	91.4	67.4	0.0
8	Southeast University Southeast University China	245.3	93.5	79.5	60.2	60.3	0.0
9	Xidian University Xidian University China	232.3	95.9	73.4	54.2	52.2	0.0
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	230.8	38.8	75.6	70.8	52.2	50.0
11	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	228.8	30.0	95.8	75.7	87.9	0.0
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	228.2	85.2	74.5	60.2	56.4	0.0
13	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	227.6	32.4	73.9	61.6	47.7	61.2
14	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	225.6	23.7	100.0	75.1	36.9	50.0
15	Princeton University Princeton University United States	223.0	38.2	100.0	86.6	67.4	0.0
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	221.6	41.8	92.0	85.5	70.7	0.0
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	220.9	56.1	99.2	89.7	47.7	0.0
18	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	219.7	47.1	88.1	85.3	67.4	0.0
19	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	218.1	26.1	76.1	68.1	52.2	50.0
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	215.6	50.6	87.7	85.5	60.3	0.0
21	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	210.6	82.7	80.6	52.0	36.9	0.0
22	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	210.3	42.1	81.5	80.1	70.7	0.0
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	207.1	37.9	72.6	84.1	79.8	0.0
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	206.8	80.3	71.9	59.7	42.6	0.0
25	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	206.1	76.2	76.0	56.1	42.6	0.0
26	Beihang University Beihang University China	203.9	77.8	72.3	55.5	42.6	0.0
27	University College London University College London United Kingdom	203.5	38.4	100.0	87.5	47.7	0.0
27	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney Australia	203.5	57.8	97.1	91.9	30.2	0.0
29	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	202.7	44.8	87.3	71.1	56.4	0.0
30	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	202.4	24.8	100.0	68.2	64.0	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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