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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	262.7	34.0
2	Xidian University Xidian University	181.6	3.0
3	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	150.2	14.1
4	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	144.7	0.0
5	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	144.3	0.0
6	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	140.4	0.0
7	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	139.9	0.0
8	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	139.5	0.0
9	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	139.2	0.0
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	136.5	0.0
11	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	134.1	0.0
12	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University	133.1	0.0
13	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	130.3	4.1
14	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	129.8	24.1
15	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	129.4	14.1
16	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	129.2	19.4
17	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	128.2	0.0
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	128.2	0.0
19	University of Twente University of Twente	127.5	10.9
20	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	127.3	14.1
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	125.5	0.0
22	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	123.3	3.0
23	Peking University Peking University	122.1	4.1
24	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	120.8	0.0
24	Nanjing University Nanjing University	120.8	0.0
26	National University of Defense Technology	119.6	0.0
27	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	119.5	0.0
28	Lancaster University Lancaster University	117.9	14.1
29	Hunan University Hunan University	117.4	0.0
30	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	116.8	5.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020