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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Central South University Central South University	282.0	37.4
2	University of Science and Technology Beijing	278.3	40.0
3	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	220.5	5.2
4	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	219.3	0.0
5	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	219.0	0.0
6	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	209.9	7.6
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	207.6	5.2
8	Chongqing University Chongqing University	202.0	27.2
9	University of Science and Technology of China	189.1	0.0
10	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	174.9	33.8
11	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	171.8	48.4
12	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	168.7	10.7
13	Pohang University of Science and Technology	167.2	27.2
14	Tianjin University Tianjin University	166.9	13.3
15	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	163.3	13.1
16	Shanghai University Shanghai University	159.1	0.0
17	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	158.3	0.0
18	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	157.3	0.0
19	Beihang University Beihang University	157.2	0.0
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	156.9	23.2
21	Tohoku University Tohoku University	156.0	6.7
22	Shandong University Shandong University	155.7	0.0
23	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	155.1	7.6
24	Jilin University Jilin University	153.7	0.0
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	152.1	20.0
26	Sichuan University Sichuan University	152.0	0.0
27	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	151.2	0.0
28	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	150.0	0.0
29	Kyushu University Kyushu University	149.8	38.0
30	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	149.6	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020