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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Yale University Yale University	207.5	19.2
2	Harvard University Harvard University	206.5	27.8
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	187.1	22.5
4	University of Chicago University of Chicago	182.7	20.8
5	New York University New York University	176.0	27.4
6	Columbia University Columbia University	174.5	22.1
7	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	169.8	60.0
8	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	152.6	5.9
9	Georgetown University Georgetown University	152.2	20.2
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	148.9	8.0
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	146.9	33.2
12	Stanford University Stanford University	146.2	0.0
13	Florida State University Florida State University	144.9	16.4
14	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	144.8	16.4
15	Duke University Duke University	141.6	0.0
15	University College London University College London	141.6	31.6
17	Arizona State University Arizona State University	140.7	40.4
18	George Mason University George Mason University	138.2	23.7
19	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	135.0	18.5
20	University of Virginia University of Virginia	134.1	0.0
21	University of South Florida University of South Florida	131.8	27.8
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	130.8	0.0
23	Northwestern University Northwestern University	128.6	7.6
24	Monash University Monash University	128.5	31.3
25	University of Toronto University of Toronto	128.4	24.8
26	Leiden University Leiden University	128.1	24.2
27	Iowa State University Iowa State University	126.0	24.8
28	Michigan State University Michigan State University	125.7	18.6
29	Utrecht University Utrecht University	124.6	33.6
30	Northeastern University (Boston) Northeastern University (Boston)	123.2	15.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020