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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	307.3	100.0	100.0	73.5	100.0
2	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	243.3	65.1	99.6	46.2	91.3
3	University of Vienna University of Vienna Austria	233.1	70.3	96.7	84.9	70.7
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	227.2	73.0	80.1	51.0	72.6
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	224.7	70.6	84.2	50.8	71.7
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	223.2	68.4	92.5	46.2	69.7
7	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	222.4	67.9	87.3	43.0	72.6
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	219.6	65.1	96.1	83.2	65.6
9	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	219.4	62.4	92.4	60.5	73.6
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	219.0	67.1	92.6	74.7	64.5
11	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	218.9	66.6	73.2	51.2	77.3
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	218.1	59.3	83.8	55.9	81.6
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	217.2	59.6	90.2	55.0	77.3
14	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	215.1	64.3	100.0	85.9	60.1
15	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel	211.0	60.7	83.0	67.7	71.7
16	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	196.3	58.4	91.3	77.2	55.3
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	195.5	60.4	91.3	51.9	54.0
18	Cornell University Cornell University United States	192.1	51.3	89.3	49.3	65.6
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	189.9	55.4	75.5	44.9	64.5
20	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	186.8	55.1	79.0	57.0	58.9
21	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	183.2	49.9	85.6	77.8	57.7
22	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia United States	183.0	56.9	77.1	50.1	54.0
23	University of Oregon University of Oregon United States	178.3	44.9	93.2	42.7	60.1
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	178.2	45.3	79.9	69.2	63.5
25	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	177.9	51.3	72.3	47.2	60.1
26	University of Mainz University of Mainz Germany	177.1	47.8	100.0	67.5	48.6
27	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	173.3	46.4	86.8	63.4	54.0
28	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	172.3	47.5	96.1	74.4	45.6
29	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom	168.5	42.1	98.3	62.3	50.0
30	Stanford University Stanford University United States	167.2	44.1	88.0	56.6	51.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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