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	University of Science and Technology of China	267.0	14.6
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	263.8	33.2
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	260.4	11.4
4	Soochow University (China) Soochow University (China)	252.2	33.5
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	246.5	33.7
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	232.5	0.0
7	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	223.9	10.6
8	Peking University Peking University	222.5	0.0
9	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	221.4	9.4
10	Fudan University Fudan University	216.9	0.0
11	Nanjing University Nanjing University	214.7	7.7
12	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	212.7	0.0
13	Sichuan University Sichuan University	211.2	16.3
14	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	211.0	32.7
15	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	206.4	11.5
16	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	203.3	8.4
17	Nankai University Nankai University	200.1	10.3
18	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	197.1	0.0
19	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	196.5	0.0
20	Tianjin University Tianjin University	196.2	0.0
21	Southern University of Science and Technology	192.1	0.0
22	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	191.9	32.7
23	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	191.4	28.3
24	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	188.7	11.9
25	Shandong University Shandong University	188.5	8.7
26	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	187.7	0.0
27	Jilin University Jilin University	187.3	0.0
28	Wuhan University Wuhan University	186.7	0.0
29	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	185.9	0.0
30	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	182.8	23.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020