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	375.8	120.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	361.0	123.9
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	355.8	103.5
4	University of Oxford University of Oxford	322.0	113.9
5	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	305.2	91.7
6	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	303.3	93.9
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	299.6	101.4
8	Imperial College London Imperial College London	283.8	77.2
9	Duke University Duke University	283.6	85.8
10	Emory University Emory University	279.1	79.3
11	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	273.0	40.1
12	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	272.1	86.6
13	Oregon Health and Science University Oregon Health and Science University	261.0	84.5
14	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	252.5	78.4
15	University of Washington University of Washington	246.6	43.8
16	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	246.3	46.5
17	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	245.2	70.9
18	University College London University College London	238.1	64.2
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	237.5	59.4
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	231.2	50.6
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	220.7	84.7
22	University of Leicester University of Leicester	220.3	60.3
23	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	212.7	40.5
24	Stanford University Stanford University	209.6	55.2
25	King's College London King's College London	204.7	58.0
26	Columbia University Columbia University	204.2	54.3
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	203.9	54.6
28	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	199.1	53.8
29	Yale University Yale University	197.3	46.8
30	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	195.4	36.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020