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	Hohai University Hohai University	270.8	23.9
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	265.1	60.0
3	Wuhan University Wuhan University	227.9	7.2
4	University of Arizona University of Arizona	223.3	28.0
5	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	219.0	0.0
6	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	215.2	22.4
7	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	209.6	0.0
8	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	202.1	31.1
9	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	200.4	37.7
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University	196.7	34.1
11	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	195.7	4.8
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	193.9	20.0
13	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	191.3	5.4
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	189.2	20.0
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	188.4	14.1
16	Nanjing University Nanjing University	176.6	0.0
17	Vienna University of Technology Vienna University of Technology	173.8	32.4
18	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	173.5	8.6
19	Cornell University Cornell University	170.6	20.0
20	Southern University of Science and Technology	170.5	0.0
21	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	170.4	36.5
22	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	170.3	7.5
23	University of Bristol University of Bristol	170.2	23.9
24	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	170.1	14.0
25	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	167.3	0.0
26	Imperial College London Imperial College London	166.6	33.7
27	Tianjin University Tianjin University	164.6	0.0
28	University of Padua University of Padua	162.7	26.1
29	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	160.5	7.7
30	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	160.3	4.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020