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	280.1	60.0
2	University of Toronto University of Toronto	231.8	46.2
3	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	227.7	53.3
4	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	224.3	42.1
5	Princeton University Princeton University	221.2	33.2
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	220.6	12.7
7	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	220.3	43.3
8	Stanford University Stanford University	220.1	11.7
9	New York University New York University	213.5	44.2
10	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	211.3	31.4
11	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	210.1	25.6
12	Northwestern University Northwestern University	205.4	53.8
12	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	205.4	29.8
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	204.6	12.4
15	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	201.7	43.2
16	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	199.0	42.1
17	University of Surrey University of Surrey	193.7	51.6
18	Cornell University Cornell University	191.7	14.4
19	Columbia University Columbia University	190.8	25.5
20	Duke University Duke University	187.5	10.6
21	University College London University College London	186.8	22.2
22	Brown University Brown University	185.0	43.1
23	University of Washington University of Washington	184.4	33.3
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	183.1	0.0
25	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	182.6	9.0
26	London School of Economics and Political Science	181.6	7.0
27	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	181.5	29.8
28	University of Chicago University of Chicago	179.0	11.7
29	Monash University Monash University	178.5	49.4
30	University of Oslo University of Oslo	178.2	24.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020