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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Harvard University Harvard University	434.7	129.7
2	Stanford University Stanford University	364.0	109.4
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	346.4	88.0
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	336.9	82.3
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	320.4	92.6
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	303.7	93.5
7	Yale University Yale University	294.1	90.4
8	University of Washington University of Washington	291.9	75.0
9	University College London University College London	290.5	78.5
10	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	289.6	76.0
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	282.3	94.8
12	Columbia University Columbia University	278.0	66.0
13	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	270.1	58.0
14	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	250.6	79.7
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	247.8	69.1
16	Cornell University Cornell University	229.5	64.2
17	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	219.9	56.6
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	217.4	53.2
19	Kyoto University Kyoto University	216.7	67.7
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	212.8	69.9
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	212.3	62.7
22	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	211.2	54.6
23	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	210.2	53.3
24	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	209.8	65.9
25	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	207.6	34.6
26	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	205.9	46.9
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	205.3	49.3
28	Cardiff University Cardiff University	204.9	53.9
29	University of Alberta University of Alberta	201.8	54.0
30	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	200.9	39.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020