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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	271.5	31.0
2	Tianjin University Tianjin University	262.8	18.3
3	Sichuan University Sichuan University	243.1	20.0
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	241.7	16.9
5	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	235.5	5.3
6	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	212.1	9.5
7	University of Science and Technology of China	209.9	4.7
8	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	208.6	35.0
9	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	208.4	15.2
10	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	207.8	3.3
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	206.7	61.1
11	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	206.7	5.3
13	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	205.7	0.0
14	Central South University Central South University	204.5	6.7
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	202.1	0.0
16	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	199.5	0.0
17	East China University of Science and Technology	199.3	0.0
18	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	199.1	39.5
18	NanJing Tech University NanJing Tech University	199.1	5.7
20	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	189.8	16.2
21	Imperial College London Imperial College London	189.0	40.0
22	Hunan University Hunan University	187.0	0.0
23	Chongqing University Chongqing University	185.1	0.0
24	Tongji University Tongji University	181.6	0.0
25	Jiangsu University Jiangsu University	180.1	0.0
26	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	179.4	47.7
27	Shandong University Shandong University	178.3	0.0
28	China University of Petroleum (East China)	174.1	0.0
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University	174.0	4.1
30	Southeast University Southeast University	173.8	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020