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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	246.7	43.7
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	240.0	47.4
3	Stanford University Stanford University	235.4	40.0
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	233.4	40.0
5	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	204.8	56.5
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	196.8	23.4
6	Xidian University Xidian University	196.8	29.2
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	192.5	28.3
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	192.2	26.8
10	Southeast University Southeast University	187.6	10.8
11	Wuhan University Wuhan University	183.2	34.2
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London	181.2	38.9
13	Beihang University Beihang University	177.0	27.3
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	174.3	24.3
15	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	173.0	39.5
16	Aalborg University Aalborg University	172.8	34.1
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	171.5	19.4
18	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	171.4	20.9
19	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	169.1	17.6
20	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	167.5	20.1
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	165.6	3.4
22	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	160.8	27.3
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California	157.6	43.3
24	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	156.7	13.7
25	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	154.0	8.2
26	University College London University College London	153.6	27.9
27	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	152.7	19.1
28	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	152.6	19.3
29	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	149.5	16.7
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	148.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020