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	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	310.1	53.5
2	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	251.2	60.0
3	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	249.1	50.6
4	University of Vienna University of Vienna	240.5	36.7
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University	235.2	43.1
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	224.7	50.0
7	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	215.3	16.3
8	University of Zurich University of Zurich	211.6	25.6
9	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	205.8	28.1
10	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	205.5	15.0
11	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	203.9	33.5
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	203.5	11.1
13	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	197.3	38.0
14	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	196.4	15.8
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	195.5	11.8
16	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	195.2	41.1
17	KU Leuven KU Leuven	194.3	25.0
18	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	192.7	23.7
19	Northwestern University Northwestern University	192.3	14.4
20	University of Munich University of Munich	187.0	18.3
21	Loughborough University Loughborough University	186.6	52.6
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford	183.5	5.6
23	University of Oregon University of Oregon	182.5	36.4
24	The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa	178.5	40.8
25	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	177.3	17.7
26	University of Sydney University of Sydney	170.2	33.4
27	Cornell University Cornell University	168.4	0.0
28	University of Haifa University of Haifa	162.7	23.2
29	University of Utah University of Utah	161.1	31.6
30	University of Mainz University of Mainz	160.9	15.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020