2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.(See full Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	246.7
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	240.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	235.4
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	233.4
5	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	204.8
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	196.8
6	Xidian University Xidian University China	196.8
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	192.5
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	192.2
10	Southeast University Southeast University China	187.6
11	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	183.2
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	181.2
13	Beihang University Beihang University China	177.0
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	174.3
15	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	173.0
16	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	172.8
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	171.5
18	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	171.4
19	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	169.1
20	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	167.5
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	165.6
22	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	160.8
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	157.6
24	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	156.7
25	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	154.0
26	University College London University College London United Kingdom	153.6
27	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	152.7
28	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	152.6
29	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	149.5
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	148.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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