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)

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Beihang University Beihang University	254.3	29.2
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	224.2	15.1
3	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	202.2	6.1
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	185.5	6.1
5	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	183.4	6.1
6	National University of Defense Technology	174.3	6.1
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	169.3	7.7
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	168.8	40.0
9	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	166.1	28.3
10	Cranfield University Cranfield University	165.6	38.9
11	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	163.2	4.5
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	160.8	10.1
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	155.1	13.3
14	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	154.5	9.7
15	Polytechnic University of Milan Polytechnic University of Milan	147.4	4.6
16	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	147.1	28.4
17	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	142.2	0.0
18	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	141.8	27.5
19	Seoul National University Seoul National University	137.8	27.5
20	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	137.1	0.0
21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	132.4	0.0
22	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	131.7	15.5
23	University of Bristol University of Bristol	128.8	19.4
24	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	126.5	27.5
25	Polytechnic University of Turin Polytechnic University of Turin	126.2	13.7
26	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	126.0	10.9
26	York University York University	126.0	27.5
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	125.8	13.7
29	Stanford University Stanford University	123.3	6.5
30	RMIT University RMIT University	123.2	13.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020