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	Harvard University Harvard University	290.3	57.8
2	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	289.0	55.4
3	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	286.5	8.9
4	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	281.7	48.9
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	277.0	65.1
6	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	276.9	55.1
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	271.4	15.0
8	Princeton University Princeton University	269.5	57.8
9	China University of Geosciences Beijing China University of Geosciences Beijing	259.6	74.3
10	Columbia University Columbia University	253.7	9.7
11	Utrecht University Utrecht University	251.7	71.2
12	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	247.8	22.2
13	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	244.0	46.4
14	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	228.6	0.0
15	University of Science and Technology of China	225.5	51.4
16	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	224.1	43.1
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	223.7	46.2
18	University of Arizona University of Arizona	221.7	51.9
19	PSL University PSL University	219.8	48.0
20	University of Exeter University of Exeter	219.4	72.8
21	Peking University Peking University	219.0	32.5
22	University of Leeds University of Leeds	212.3	36.7
23	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	209.1	17.2
24	University of Alberta University of Alberta	208.7	54.2
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	208.4	32.9
26	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	207.8	37.8
27	University of Oslo University of Oslo	206.2	53.5
28	Nanjing University Nanjing University	205.9	11.9
29	University of Washington University of Washington	203.2	14.4
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London	203.0	38.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020