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	Harvard University Harvard University	287.3	97.4
2	University College London University College London	228.3	71.8
3	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	220.5	91.0
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	215.6	40.5
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	215.2	51.9
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	211.9	68.4
7	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	211.1	77.5
8	University of Oxford University of Oxford	210.2	60.4
9	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	208.0	55.3
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	203.8	57.5
11	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	203.6	98.1
12	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	203.0	38.1
13	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	202.0	99.9
14	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	201.9	65.1
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	199.6	65.0
16	Utrecht University Utrecht University	198.1	64.8
17	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	197.7	66.3
18	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	196.9	65.7
19	Monash University Monash University	196.7	72.4
20	Stanford University Stanford University	196.4	49.1
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	195.8	57.7
22	KU Leuven KU Leuven	195.3	67.3
23	Yale University Yale University	192.3	52.7
24	University of Florida University of Florida	191.9	64.9
25	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	190.6	73.6
26	Leiden University Leiden University	190.3	53.6
27	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin	189.6	62.5
28	The University of Dundee The University of Dundee	187.6	32.5
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	187.0	62.4
30	University of Basel University of Basel	186.4	57.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020