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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	286.9	100.0	76.4	52.5	100.0
2	Xidian University Xidian University China	228.7	66.7	72.6	50.0	79.4
3	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	204.5	52.3	79.0	80.3	57.1
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	198.9	53.6	70.7	74.0	59.8
5	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	198.1	58.3	67.3	64.2	59.7
6	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	197.2	44.9	92.2	78.8	44.4
7	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	194.6	48.4	79.7	54.6	55.6
8	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	193.9	35.7	100.0	97.0	38.8
9	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	193.8	41.0	93.9	54.0	48.2
10	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University United States	189.8	33.0	100.0	94.3	37.9
11	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	186.5	48.7	75.1	59.9	50.7
12	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences China	182.5	48.7	74.3	52.3	49.0
13	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura Spain	178.4	28.3	100.0	89.1	32.3
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	177.8	42.1	75.3	62.2	48.0
15	Hunan University Hunan University China	177.6	30.1	100.0	62.9	35.0
16	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	172.2	43.1	72.3	67.2	43.4
17	University of Twente University of Twente Netherlands	171.8	42.8	71.7	90.5	39.2
18	University of Trento University of Trento Italy	171.4	31.0	86.9	80.7	37.3
19	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	170.1	30.8	92.0	50.0	37.3
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	169.2	42.5	67.2	64.8	46.5
21	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	169.1	41.4	70.6	69.0	43.3
22	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	168.4	36.0	78.7	54.9	42.8
22	University of Iceland University of Iceland Iceland	168.4	23.6	100.0	98.1	25.2
24	Boston University Boston University United States	165.4	25.5	95.9	80.5	27.8
24	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	165.4	23.6	100.0	87.4	24.3
26	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	163.9	32.2	81.0	87.7	33.1
27	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) France	163.5	36.6	71.4	86.3	38.2
28	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	159.3	36.3	71.3	43.2	43.1
28	Lancaster University Lancaster University United Kingdom	159.3	22.6	92.4	95.5	25.2
30	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	158.9	31.6	74.2	87.9	35.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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