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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	346.1	51.4
2	Stanford University Stanford University	300.9	47.6
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	284.5	99.6
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	269.7	45.6
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	268.5	38.2
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	252.7	44.6
7	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	252.6	84.7
8	Harvard University Harvard University	245.3	55.4
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	238.3	90.9
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	237.4	89.5
11	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	236.3	100.0
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	232.8	66.2
13	Peking University Peking University	231.5	70.1
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	230.6	35.5
15	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	229.8	48.7
16	Princeton University Princeton University	226.4	33.1
17	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	225.2	69.3
18	Beihang University Beihang University	225.1	89.6
19	Xidian University Xidian University	224.0	98.8
20	Columbia University Columbia University	221.9	39.5
21	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	221.6	34.1
22	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	220.3	90.9
23	University of Montreal University of Montreal	218.6	37.9
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	217.8	43.3
25	University of Sydney University of Sydney	217.1	59.4
26	University of Science and Technology of China	216.9	72.8
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	215.8	89.5
28	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	213.6	53.5
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	212.0	79.3
30	New York University New York University	209.8	35.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020