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	229.5	58.9
2	Peking Union Medical College Peking Union Medical College	222.8	49.9
3	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	216.8	65.4
4	University College London University College London	213.4	51.4
5	Monash University Monash University	211.3	52.6
6	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	210.6	45.6
7	King's College London King's College London	204.7	70.4
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	196.7	20.8
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	196.5	47.4
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University	194.9	63.7
11	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	191.4	41.2
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	191.1	30.2
13	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	187.6	54.5
14	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	186.7	69.9
14	Sichuan University Sichuan University	186.7	31.7
16	China Pharmaceutical University China Pharmaceutical University	182.5	7.1
17	Fudan University Fudan University	181.1	9.1
18	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	180.1	14.7
19	Leiden University Leiden University	179.4	48.0
20	King Saud University King Saud University	179.3	38.6
21	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	178.8	40.0
22	Duke University Duke University	177.6	68.5
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	177.5	37.2
24	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	175.9	14.4
25	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	173.0	60.0
26	University of Nottingham University of Nottingham	172.7	23.9
27	University of Barcelona University of Barcelona	171.9	32.6
28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	171.2	34.5
29	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	171.1	39.2
30	University of Milan University of Milan	170.3	34.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020