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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	298.7	53.2
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	272.1	53.4
3	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	246.1	32.2
4	Imperial College London Imperial College London	244.9	53.2
5	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	240.5	72.3
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	227.5	29.9
7	University of Science and Technology of China	220.7	9.8
8	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	220.2	30.1
9	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	218.9	30.9
10	Stanford University Stanford University	215.9	20.0
11	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	210.8	31.0
12	Tianjin University Tianjin University	208.1	15.0
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	206.6	29.9
14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	205.6	28.9
15	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	203.7	32.2
16	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	200.6	20.0
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	200.6	25.0
18	University of Houston University of Houston	190.7	80.0
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	190.1	0.0
20	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	188.6	29.9
21	Fudan University Fudan University	188.0	30.5
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	186.8	4.2
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	184.7	36.4
24	Aalborg University Aalborg University	184.0	58.9
25	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	182.6	18.5
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	182.3	10.6
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	182.2	4.2
27	Northwestern University Northwestern University	182.2	28.9
29	Central South University Central South University	181.8	5.0
30	Peking University Peking University	178.7	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020