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	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	308.6	64.8
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	299.9	95.7
3	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	290.7	38.0
4	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	268.3	58.4
5	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	230.3	57.3
6	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	224.6	41.8
7	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	218.7	45.1
8	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	215.6	80.0
9	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	201.7	54.1
10	University of Florida University of Florida	200.0	26.1
11	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	198.9	45.0
12	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	197.7	57.0
13	University of Sydney University of Sydney	196.4	63.4
14	University of Alberta University of Alberta	194.9	65.2
15	University of Nebraska - Lincoln University of Nebraska - Lincoln	191.7	69.9
16	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	190.0	37.0
17	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	188.4	43.5
18	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	187.8	10.1
19	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	187.7	43.4
20	Aarhus University Aarhus University	187.3	30.1
21	Cornell University Cornell University	186.5	43.6
22	Beijing Forestry University Beijing Forestry University	185.0	20.7
23	Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing Forestry University	180.7	7.7
24	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague	180.5	42.3
25	King Saud University King Saud University	176.3	20.0
26	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	174.8	46.1
27	Michigan State University Michigan State University	174.2	35.3
28	Colorado State University Colorado State University	174.0	48.1
29	University of Florence University of Florence	173.2	54.5
30	Northeast Forestry University Northeast Forestry University	172.2	33.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020