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)

200 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)	303.2	63.2
2	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	300.9	81.2
3	Imperial College London Imperial College London	273.7	79.5
4	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	263.3	46.4
5	Stanford University Stanford University	262.0	70.2
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	259.4	33.4
7	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	244.0	39.8
8	Southeast University Southeast University	241.8	32.7
9	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	241.1	25.3
10	Beihang University Beihang University	237.0	34.3
11	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	236.5	32.7
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	231.7	32.7
13	Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology	230.2	80.5
14	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	228.4	29.5
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	222.7	13.3
16	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.1	61.1
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	220.2	30.1
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	212.0	65.2
19	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	209.9	60.0
20	University of Alberta University of Alberta	208.1	40.9
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	207.2	40.5
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	207.0	20.0
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	206.5	57.2
24	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	202.5	60.5
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	195.1	15.1
26	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	194.6	34.6
27	Guangdong University of Technology Guangdong University of Technology	193.4	32.7
28	University of Groningen University of Groningen	192.3	14.3
29	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	190.2	39.2
30	University of Science and Technology of China	189.6	33.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020