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	360.8	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	286.3	79.3
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	281.1	69.3
4	University College London University College London	280.5	62.1
5	Columbia University Columbia University	254.8	64.8
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	228.9	55.3
7	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	227.1	70.4
8	Stanford University Stanford University	226.1	47.2
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	215.7	53.1
10	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	211.4	46.4
11	Yale University Yale University	209.8	52.6
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	208.3	47.2
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	207.6	45.3
13	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	207.6	61.2
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	205.8	23.7
16	Imperial College London Imperial College London	204.2	50.6
17	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	203.8	44.8
18	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	202.7	38.9
19	King's College London King's College London	199.5	53.3
20	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	197.6	41.3
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	192.3	33.1
22	University of Washington University of Washington	191.1	38.0
23	McGill University McGill University	190.8	49.5
24	Cornell University Cornell University	190.5	43.6
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	190.3	50.8
26	University of Munich University of Munich	184.0	40.9
27	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	183.2	35.8
28	Duke University Duke University	183.0	45.9
29	University of Zurich University of Zurich	182.7	31.5
30	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	179.1	28.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020