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	Northwestern University Northwestern University	371.0	118.6
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	357.1	125.7
3	Harvard University Harvard University	353.7	129.9
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	338.8	105.8
5	Stanford University Stanford University	337.8	118.8
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	326.4	88.1
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	323.4	114.7
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	320.5	100.3
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	299.1	91.5
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	293.6	87.0
11	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	288.1	73.4
12	University of Science and Technology of China	286.8	56.9
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	283.9	84.4
13	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	283.9	93.3
15	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	283.0	97.8
16	Peking University Peking University	272.6	69.2
17	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	270.3	113.4
18	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	258.9	71.3
19	Fudan University Fudan University	257.9	70.9
20	Soochow University (China) Soochow University (China)	256.8	57.3
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	253.8	72.2
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	249.9	88.2
23	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	249.5	66.9
24	Tianjin University Tianjin University	248.1	58.7
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	247.9	32.5
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	241.2	45.2
27	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	238.7	46.3
28	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	238.5	51.1
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University	238.0	55.3
30	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	235.4	52.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020