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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Princeton University Princeton University	342.1	123.8
2	University of Washington University of Washington	337.2	70.4
3	Columbia University Columbia University	302.0	85.8
4	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	300.5	61.7
5	The University of Reading The University of Reading	285.3	78.4
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	271.3	44.9
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	256.5	70.9
8	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	255.0	8.7
9	Colorado State University Colorado State University	248.6	40.9
10	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	243.5	57.4
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	235.8	48.0
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	234.1	58.6
13	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	233.6	52.2
14	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	232.6	53.4
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	228.3	49.8
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	215.6	41.2
17	Harvard University Harvard University	212.8	41.2
18	Nanjing University Nanjing University	209.9	32.0
19	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	208.5	30.0
20	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	208.3	41.2
21	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	207.7	65.8
21	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	207.7	60.0
23	University of Miami University of Miami	204.5	46.8
24	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	203.3	40.0
25	University of Exeter University of Exeter	200.7	45.6
26	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	200.0	57.6
27	Peking University Peking University	199.4	35.1
28	University of Leeds University of Leeds	198.3	48.4
29	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	195.1	29.4
30	Stanford University Stanford University	195.0	41.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020