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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	242.7	61.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	235.0	57.0
3	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	222.2	71.3
4	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	212.7	43.2
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University	211.7	67.1
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	210.6	38.8
7	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	204.7	69.8
8	Imperial College London Imperial College London	202.8	40.9
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	202.0	54.2
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	197.4	74.0
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	193.5	34.6
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	192.6	23.3
13	Stanford University Stanford University	189.2	40.2
14	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	185.3	36.7
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	180.6	67.6
16	Beihang University Beihang University	179.0	29.2
17	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	178.5	9.6
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	177.7	31.5
19	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	175.3	29.3
20	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	173.4	20.0
21	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	168.0	33.3
22	Chongqing University Chongqing University	165.7	36.0
23	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	164.1	42.4
24	University of Nottingham University of Nottingham	163.7	49.1
25	INSA Lyon INSA Lyon	162.4	46.5
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	162.1	29.7
27	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	160.2	11.0
28	University of Twente University of Twente	159.9	38.9
29	Harvard University Harvard University	159.8	28.3
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	159.1	27.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020