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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	242.7	32.4
2	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	238.0	53.7
3	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	213.2	11.4
4	Temple University Temple University	201.7	0.0
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	199.4	15.2
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	196.7	9.6
7	McGill University McGill University	196.6	34.8
8	University of South Florida University of South Florida	195.0	8.1
9	Wuhan University Wuhan University	192.3	31.9
10	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	188.9	17.8
11	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	186.5	9.1
12	Arizona State University Arizona State University	183.5	17.8
12	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	183.5	4.5
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	182.7	0.0
15	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	180.9	24.5
16	University of Washington University of Washington	180.6	17.0
17	University of Sydney University of Sydney	177.0	31.1
18	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	176.9	19.8
18	University of Virginia University of Virginia	176.9	3.7
20	Nanjing University Nanjing University	176.5	14.0
21	Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University	175.7	28.0
22	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	174.5	5.2
23	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	173.0	57.0
24	Georgia State University Georgia State University	172.0	3.7
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	171.3	28.0
26	University of Arizona University of Arizona	170.1	0.0
27	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	167.6	8.9
28	The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas	166.1	3.7
29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	165.8	8.1
30	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	163.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020