2024 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	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	397.6	121.7
2	Stanford University Stanford University	394.8	126.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	357.1	83.2
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	351.3	100.7
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	337.6	100.0
6	University of Science and Technology of China	336.3	79.7
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	334.1	90.9
8	Peking University Peking University	308.9	90.0
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	305.0	82.8
10	Harvard University Harvard University	294.1	59.4
11	Nankai University Nankai University	289.5	67.7
12	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	288.1	76.3
13	Columbia University Columbia University	283.8	96.4
14	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	275.4	54.2
15	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	273.9	74.2
16	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	273.1	58.4
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	271.8	70.8
18	Tianjin University Tianjin University	271.6	60.4
19	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	269.5	67.8
20	Jilin University Jilin University	268.2	69.9
21	Nanjing University Nanjing University	265.5	54.1
22	Fudan University Fudan University	264.1	57.1
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	259.8	54.8
24	University of Chicago University of Chicago	256.4	76.9
25	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	255.7	59.2
26	Soochow University (China) Soochow University (China)	250.2	48.8
27	Princeton University Princeton University	248.7	73.6
28	Xiamen University Xiamen University	248.4	50.4
29	University of Oxford University of Oxford	246.6	72.9
30	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	245.5	49.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020