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	China University of Mining and Technology	201.3	32.7
2	Central South University Central South University	185.7	0.0
3	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	155.2	0.0
4	University of Science and Technology Beijing	147.2	0.0
5	China University of Mining & Technology-Beijing	144.7	0.0
6	Monash University Monash University	138.5	0.0
7	Sichuan University Sichuan University	132.0	0.0
8	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	130.6	11.5
9	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	128.1	0.0
10	Chongqing University Chongqing University	127.3	0.0
11	China University of Geosciences Beijing China University of Geosciences Beijing	121.9	0.0
12	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	121.6	0.0
13	Shandong University of Science and Technology	121.2	0.0
14	Wuhan University Wuhan University	117.1	0.0
15	Kunming University of Science and Technology	116.9	0.0
16	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	116.6	0.0
17	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	115.0	0.0
18	Southeast University Southeast University	113.4	0.0
19	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	112.4	0.0
20	Curtin University Curtin University	112.2	0.0
21	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	111.9	0.0
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	106.7	0.0
23	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong	105.4	11.5
24	Henan Polytechnic University Henan Polytechnic University	104.7	0.0
25	Nanjing University Nanjing University	104.3	0.0
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	104.1	0.0
26	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	104.1	0.0
28	Xi'an University of Science and Technology	103.4	0.0
29	Shandong University Shandong University	102.0	0.0
30	Chengdu University of Technology Chengdu University of Technology	101.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020