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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	339.2	55.7	76.4	69.8	93.1	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	314.8	84.4	66.6	55.4	82.0	70.7
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	291.7	52.2	85.3	77.6	81.0	57.7
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	285.7	42.3	59.3	60.9	80.6	91.3
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	284.0	85.6	83.9	90.0	96.6	0.0
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	277.2	50.4	68.4	86.5	83.3	57.7
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	270.5	100.0	72.0	51.7	88.2	0.0
8	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	269.8	78.4	92.7	57.1	87.2	0.0
9	Southeast University Southeast University China	264.6	90.4	82.4	66.2	78.5	0.0
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	264.6	46.7	74.4	69.7	71.9	57.7
11	Stanford University Stanford University United States	262.8	41.2	78.5	64.0	59.6	70.7
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	258.4	55.3	59.7	56.4	91.3	40.8
13	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	253.7	27.7	75.1	65.4	46.5	91.3
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	253.0	41.8	68.0	75.9	57.3	70.7
15	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	252.6	86.1	75.5	46.7	81.6	0.0
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	252.1	87.2	73.3	56.5	80.3	0.0
17	Beihang University Beihang University China	249.8	87.0	75.4	58.5	75.6	0.0
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	249.6	89.7	76.7	58.5	71.5	0.0
19	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	248.4	41.7	60.2	87.3	88.2	40.8
20	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	247.1	75.9	74.8	53.8	85.6	0.0
21	Harvard University Harvard University United States	242.6	38.5	94.3	73.5	54.3	40.8
22	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia	236.7	35.2	59.6	87.5	66.7	57.7
23	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	234.2	53.2	63.7	86.5	100.0	0.0
24	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	226.5	87.3	78.2	54.8	50.0	0.0
25	Guangdong University of Technology Guangdong University of Technology China	222.8	63.4	89.9	56.5	58.2	0.0
26	Brunel University London Brunel University London United Kingdom	222.0	43.3	100.0	97.7	59.2	0.0
27	Polytechnic University of Milan Polytechnic University of Milan Italy	221.8	49.3	87.1	77.2	69.9	0.0
28	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	220.4	23.8	70.1	70.9	41.5	70.7
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	219.5	43.0	73.8	72.5	88.2	0.0
30	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	216.9	32.3	63.4	66.2	67.1	40.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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