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	University of Oxford University of Oxford	332.5	85.3
2	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	310.4	82.2
3	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	309.7	77.3
4	University of Exeter University of Exeter	295.2	64.0
5	James Cook University James Cook University	272.1	84.4
5	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	272.1	47.7
7	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	271.8	24.3
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	270.7	39.8
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	268.3	35.8
10	University of Florida University of Florida	263.8	41.8
11	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	258.2	31.0
12	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	255.8	29.5
13	Cornell University Cornell University	253.1	27.1
14	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	250.3	53.8
15	PSL University PSL University	242.9	9.3
16	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	240.0	63.3
17	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	239.2	26.5
18	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	238.5	36.6
19	Aarhus University Aarhus University	235.6	38.3
20	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	231.8	29.5
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	231.3	22.0
22	Colorado State University Colorado State University	230.0	17.1
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	229.5	41.8
24	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	229.4	0.0
25	Utah State University Utah State University	229.1	60.6
26	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	226.3	0.0
27	Michigan State University Michigan State University	225.4	31.9
28	Imperial College London Imperial College London	225.3	41.8
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	225.3	51.2
30	Harvard University Harvard University	225.0	41.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020