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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Harvard University Harvard University	362.1	40.0
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	302.4	44.7
3	Stanford University Stanford University	296.0	33.8
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	286.6	35.1
5	Columbia University Columbia University	270.4	50.0
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	262.5	43.1
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	250.2	19.0
8	University of Washington University of Washington	246.6	31.4
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	245.3	43.5
10	Princeton University Princeton University	243.1	41.4
11	Duke University Duke University	225.8	24.0
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.4	21.4
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	222.0	35.1
14	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	216.9	21.4
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	211.1	17.3
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	208.1	39.9
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	200.4	6.0
18	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	195.5	0.0
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	194.4	0.0
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	194.4	19.0
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	183.6	15.1
22	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	181.6	25.7
23	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	174.4	19.9
24	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	172.4	28.8
25	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	170.8	34.5
26	University of Warwick University of Warwick	168.5	28.2
27	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	167.2	0.0
28	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	166.6	14.1
29	University of Bristol University of Bristol	165.8	26.0
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	165.8	19.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020