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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	314.7	50.6
2	King's College London King's College London	287.2	63.8
3	University of Washington University of Washington	272.0	71.3
4	Sichuan University Sichuan University	270.7	39.4
5	Harvard University Harvard University	268.6	43.3
6	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	260.6	63.4
7	University of Bern University of Bern	252.2	30.9
8	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	250.2	54.2
9	Osaka University Osaka University	244.9	71.4
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	239.9	53.1
11	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	237.8	21.6
12	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	237.6	21.4
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	233.0	34.7
14	University College London University College London	231.9	50.3
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	229.5	31.1
16	University of Iowa University of Iowa	227.6	51.5
17	KU Leuven KU Leuven	219.6	30.8
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich	216.7	36.8
19	Tokyo Medical and Dental University Tokyo Medical and Dental University	212.7	27.2
20	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	210.3	54.7
21	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	209.5	44.2
21	University of Turku University of Turku	209.5	35.0
23	New York University New York University	203.2	15.1
24	University of Otago University of Otago	200.5	51.3
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	200.5	27.3
26	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	198.5	36.1
27	University of Campinas University of Campinas	197.6	21.0
28	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	197.3	46.3
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	192.3	40.7
30	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	190.9	48.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020