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	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	257.6	9.1
2	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	250.4	20.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	239.3	2.3
4	Southeast University Southeast University	238.3	2.0
5	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	232.2	36.4
6	Tongji University Tongji University	226.2	2.2
7	Beihang University Beihang University	206.3	5.9
8	University of Sydney University of Sydney	200.2	24.3
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	196.2	3.8
10	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	193.6	12.6
11	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	192.6	8.5
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	183.9	2.3
13	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	178.3	15.7
14	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	176.3	0.0
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	174.7	2.7
16	Central South University Central South University	170.0	12.2
17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	169.9	5.5
18	Xidian University Xidian University	169.6	0.0
19	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	165.0	0.0
20	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	164.1	9.1
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	160.9	12.3
22	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	160.3	0.0
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	159.0	32.4
24	Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology	158.5	0.0
25	University of South Florida University of South Florida	157.9	32.7
26	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	157.2	0.0
27	Chongqing University Chongqing University	156.9	0.0
27	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	156.9	0.0
29	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	155.8	2.0
30	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	155.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020