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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Southeast University Southeast University	268.8	19.1
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	264.4	39.0
3	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	262.1	20.6
4	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	249.4	28.5
5	Xidian University Xidian University	245.8	0.0
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	234.9	32.4
7	Princeton University Princeton University	232.7	25.7
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	219.7	40.0
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	217.5	27.9
10	University of Southampton University of Southampton	216.1	25.7
11	University of Sydney University of Sydney	206.2	30.5
12	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	202.7	24.0
13	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	201.8	33.0
14	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	200.6	16.3
15	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	199.3	31.3
16	Stanford University Stanford University	199.0	43.9
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	198.3	12.3
18	Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London	195.3	20.0
19	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	193.0	20.7
20	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	187.8	0.0
21	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications	183.0	11.5
22	Singapore University of Technology & Design	182.4	11.5
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	182.0	7.0
24	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	181.3	2.5
25	University of Houston University of Houston	180.8	11.5
26	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	180.2	6.7
27	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	177.0	16.3
28	Carleton University Carleton University	171.9	14.9
29	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	170.4	11.5
30	University of Oulu University of Oulu	170.3	16.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020