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	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	265.3	40.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University	249.0	37.9
3	Aarhus University Aarhus University	243.1	14.6
4	Leiden University Leiden University	232.1	0.0
5	Roskilde University Roskilde University	223.0	42.3
6	American University American University	207.4	41.3
7	Rutgers University-Newark Rutgers University-Newark	202.5	35.6
8	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	190.1	30.0
9	Renmin University of China Renmin University of China	184.0	28.3
10	King's College London King's College London	181.8	40.0
11	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	178.8	37.9
12	Georgetown University Georgetown University	175.0	9.1
13	Harvard University Harvard University	173.8	20.5
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	173.1	24.1
15	University College London University College London	172.8	10.0
16	Arizona State University Arizona State University	172.2	34.6
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	172.1	0.0
18	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	171.5	22.6
19	KU Leuven KU Leuven	171.3	17.9
20	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida	169.7	28.3
21	Cardiff University Cardiff University	167.5	8.2
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	166.6	9.4
23	Florida State University Florida State University	166.4	0.0
24	University of York University of York	165.3	21.9
25	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	163.6	0.0
26	Syracuse University Syracuse University	162.9	4.6
27	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	162.8	12.6
28	Ghent University Ghent University	162.5	0.0
28	University of Antwerp University of Antwerp	162.5	0.0
30	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	162.4	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020