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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	441.9	134.1
2	Princeton University Princeton University	425.7	131.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University	405.1	150.3
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	395.4	119.1
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	375.3	109.9
6	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	369.6	91.0
7	Harvard University Harvard University	353.7	105.9
8	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	353.6	73.1
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	348.8	90.6
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	343.4	111.6
11	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	336.8	106.5
12	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	311.4	74.5
13	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	306.0	79.8
14	University of Chicago University of Chicago	302.0	65.2
15	University of Geneva University of Geneva	297.6	81.6
16	Columbia University Columbia University	292.1	104.7
17	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	291.5	59.8
18	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	288.9	82.2
19	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	286.0	104.2
20	University of Washington University of Washington	285.4	73.2
21	PSL University PSL University	284.4	33.1
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	281.8	68.2
23	University of Science and Technology of China	281.3	69.4
24	Peking University Peking University	278.6	70.9
25	The Australian National University The Australian National University	277.3	96.1
26	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	274.8	53.9
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	272.0	72.6
28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	266.2	60.0
29	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	266.1	11.0
30	University of Munich University of Munich	263.9	67.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020