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 Chicago University of Chicago	291.2	49.4
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	278.5	56.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University	249.0	40.4
4	Harvard University Harvard University	245.6	33.1
5	New York University New York University	234.0	42.4
6	Columbia University Columbia University	229.6	13.8
7	London Business School London Business School	222.0	36.0
8	University of Toronto University of Toronto	218.4	35.5
9	London School of Economics and Political Science	214.9	33.3
10	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	214.4	29.7
11	Yale University Yale University	211.0	30.4
12	Cornell University Cornell University	205.5	31.1
13	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	202.4	20.0
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London	199.8	31.9
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	192.9	23.7
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	192.7	8.8
17	Boston College Boston College	192.6	8.2
18	Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin	191.5	56.2
19	University of Southern California University of Southern California	190.6	12.9
20	Northwestern University Northwestern University	189.3	17.0
21	HEC Paris HEC Paris	187.4	20.9
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	186.9	4.1
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	186.9	4.8
24	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	185.3	19.0
25	Monash University Monash University	185.1	26.0
26	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	184.8	24.2
27	Duke University Duke University	183.4	7.9
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	181.3	8.1
29	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	181.0	7.9
30	University of Sydney University of Sydney	180.0	37.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020