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	Harvard University Harvard University	370.7	120.0
2	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	277.1	89.4
3	University College London University College London	272.1	94.6
4	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	271.9	67.9
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	250.9	69.6
6	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	241.7	67.7
7	University of Toronto University of Toronto	238.7	59.0
8	University of Washington University of Washington	234.4	55.0
9	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	224.7	63.2
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney	217.8	58.6
11	Columbia University Columbia University	213.3	52.5
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	212.9	65.6
13	Yale University Yale University	208.0	54.3
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	207.4	51.7
15	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	206.2	69.3
16	Emory University Emory University	205.9	51.1
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London	203.0	37.8
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	199.9	55.1
19	Stanford University Stanford University	199.1	46.6
20	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	197.8	50.2
21	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	191.1	48.3
22	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	188.1	66.5
23	University of Ottawa University of Ottawa	187.9	57.4
24	Boston University Boston University	186.3	41.1
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	186.2	28.7
26	University of Bristol University of Bristol	185.1	54.0
27	King's College London King's College London	184.3	41.8
28	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	183.7	25.7
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	183.1	38.9
30	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	182.3	47.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020