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)	371.9	75.1
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	332.3	77.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University	331.8	69.0
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	280.4	51.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	263.8	41.5
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	256.9	42.7
7	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	253.5	45.0
8	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	238.8	51.6
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	237.8	28.9
10	Harvard University Harvard University	234.4	28.2
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	232.0	39.6
12	Peking University Peking University	226.6	23.1
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	225.8	24.7
14	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	225.7	32.7
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	221.8	28.9
16	Xidian University Xidian University	219.0	33.4
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto	218.8	33.1
18	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	218.7	45.9
19	University of Sydney University of Sydney	217.8	42.3
20	Columbia University Columbia University	215.8	35.0
21	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	215.0	41.7
22	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	212.9	34.1
23	University of Science and Technology of China	210.5	20.7
24	University of Montreal University of Montreal	209.0	42.0
25	University of Southern California University of Southern California	207.4	50.8
26	New York University New York University	206.9	36.2
27	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	206.8	43.3
28	Beihang University Beihang University	202.6	13.2
29	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	201.9	32.5
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	199.4	18.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020