Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024
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Academic Ranking of World Universities : By Country | All |

Geography
Top 50 by Country
Country	Number	Percent
Australia	2	4%
Canada	2	4%
China	3	6%
China-Hong Kong	2	4%
China-Taiwan	1	2%
Netherlands	3	6%
Singapore	1	2%
South Africa	1	2%
Sweden	1	2%
United Kingdom	21	42%
United States of America	13	26%
Total	50	100%

Geography
World Rank	Institution¹	Country	Score²
World Rank	Institution¹	Country	Total score	World-Class Faculty	World-Class Output	High Quality Research	Research Impact	International Collaboration
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	265.5	52.9	87.9	73.8	37	13.9
2	University College London	United Kingdom	253.9	51.3	81.2	69.6	37	14.9
3	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	248.7	48.2	100	51.4	35.8	13.3
4	University of British Columbia	Canada	245.7	54	78.3	59.3	38.4	15.7
5	Durham University	United Kingdom	243.3	39.4	94.1	55.7	38.5	15.5
5	King's College London	United Kingdom	243.3	60	82.6	47.8	40.5	12.5
7	The University of Melbourne	Australia	240.5	39.3	82.6	68.5	36.4	13.7
8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	234.2	18.3	98.9	65.9	36.3	14.9
9	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	223.6	25.4	89.2	54.5	40.2	14.3
10	National University of Singapore	Singapore	220.5	13.1	94.1	58.1	41.4	13.8
11	The University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	217	53.9	69.1	44.6	35.3	14.1
12	Peking University	China	214.8	38.1	54.4	66.5	42.9	13
13	University of Toronto	Canada	212.5	25.8	81.2	57.3	34.5	13.8
14	Wuhan University	China	211	23.5	33.7	100	42.1	11.7
15	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong	209.2	34.8	65.7	51.9	45	11.9
16	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States of America	208.7	43	54.4	56.5	39.3	15.6
17	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong	205.5	26.5	62.2	62.6	42.2	12.1
18	Arizona State University	United States of America	204.4	32.8	65.7	50.9	39.7	15.3
19	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	196.9	11.8	76.9	56.4	37.4	14.6
20	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States of America	196.7	45	50	51.9	35.9	13.9
21	The Australian National University	Australia	195.1	55.4	30.2	57	38.1	14.4
22	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	193.3	16.6	72.3	51.1	37.8	15.4
23	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	191.8	14.1	75.4	47	38	17.3
24	University of California, Los Angeles	United States of America	191.5	41.3	56.4	43.5	37.4	12.8
25	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	189	29.9	64	44.9	35.9	14.4
26	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	187.8	33.3	54.4	49.8	35.4	15.1
27	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	187.5	25.8	64	47.6	35.9	14.2
28	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	187.2	23.5	45.2	58.8	41.5	18.1
29	Sun Yat-sen University	China-Taiwan	186.5	14.1	50	69.4	39.6	13.4
30	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	185.3	35.5	60.3	36.2	37.8	15.6
31	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	184.9	27.9	72.3	36.6	33.8	14.3
32	University of Washington	United States of America	184.6	25.4	52.2	52.6	39	15.4
33	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	182.9	24.3	52.2	52.5	41.5	12.4
34	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States of America	181.6	27.2	56.4	47.2	36.6	14.3
35	The University of Texas at Austin	United States of America	180.4	29.3	62.2	43.1	32.4	13.4
36	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States of America	180.3	41.9	45.2	40.7	38.3	14.1
37	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	180.1	32.2	56.4	42.2	34.5	14.9
38	China University of Geosciences	China	177.7	25	26.1	72	40	14.5
39	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States of America	177.6	40.8	50	36.1	38.5	12.3
40	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	177.2	24.8	47.7	50.7	38.9	15.1
41	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	172.5	29.2	50	37	40.6	15.7
42	Utrecht University	Netherlands	171.2	8.7	33.7	70.7	40	18.1
43	University of Cape Town	South Africa	171.1	40.2	45.2	39	31.9	14.8
44	Uppsala University	Sweden	170.1	43.2	33.7	40.1	36.7	16.4
45	University of Arizona	United States of America	169.6	6.9	70.7	43.8	34.4	13.8
46	University of Florida	United States of America	168.9	35.1	36.9	47.3	34.3	15.4
47	University of California, Berkeley	United States of America	168.6	21.2	50	48.3	36.4	12.7
47	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	168.6	15.7	60.3	41.6	35.9	15.1
49	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	167.4	15.5	42.6	56.8	36.2	16.3
50	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States of America	167.3	21.5	42.6	50.6	36.5	16.2
51-75	Aarhus University	Denmark		33.3	21.3	48.5	36	18.6
51-75	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain		16.6	30.2	42.9	40.6	17.6
51-75	Beijing Normal University	China		0	36.9	64.2	41.2	12.6
51-75	Columbia University	United States of America		23.5	26.1	47.9	38.3	16.3
51-75	Cornell University	United States of America		0	50	42.4	42.7	13.6
51-75	East China Normal University	China		10.4	42.6	52.2	38.9	15
51-75	Ghent University	Belgium		24	26.1	53.4	38.6	17.9
51-75	KU Leuven	Belgium		28.8	36.9	45.4	37.5	17.1
51-75	Loughborough University	United Kingdom		30.4	54.4	32.2	35.1	14.5
51-75	Lund University	Sweden		8.5	36.9	49.3	38.1	17.6
51-75	Macquarie University	Australia		20.9
51-75	Michigan State University	United States of America		19.2
51-75	Northumbria University	United Kingdom		11.7
51-75	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States of America		15.8
51-75	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom		0
51-75	Simon Fraser University	Canada		38.4
51-75	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China-Hong Kong		0
51-75	The University of New South Wales	Australia		8.3
51-75	The University of Queensland	Australia		14.8
51-75	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	United States of America		16.8
51-75	University College Dublin	Ireland		8.3
51-75	University of Oslo	Norway		16.2
51-75	University of Southampton	United Kingdom		20.4
51-75	University of Sydney	Australia		3.3
51-75	University of Tasmania	Australia		35.3
76-100	ETH Zurich	Switzerland		0
76-100	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile	Chile		38.4
76-100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States of America		0
76-100	Swansea University	United Kingdom		33.3
76-100	Syracuse University	United States of America		0
76-100	Texas A&M University	United States of America		4.7
76-100	Texas State University-San Marcos	United States of America		36.5
76-100	The George Washington University	United States of America		50.5
76-100	The Open University	United Kingdom		19.2
76-100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		16.6
76-100	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Australia		44
76-100	University of Bologna	Italy		16.6
76-100	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States of America		25.8
76-100	University of Gothenburg	Sweden		24.6
76-100	University of Helsinki	Finland		8.9
76-100	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States of America		17.1
76-100	University of Kentucky	United States of America		0
76-100	University of Lausanne	Switzerland		36.6
76-100	University of Sussex	United Kingdom		22
76-100	University of Utah	United States of America		23.5
76-100	University of Waterloo	Canada		8.9
76-100	University of Wollongong	Australia		10.5
76-100	University of York	United Kingdom		47.1
76-100	York University	Canada		35.1
76-100	Zhejiang University	China		6.7
101-150	Aberystwyth University	United Kingdom		0
101-150	Colorado State University	United States of America		8.9
101-150	Dartmouth College	United States of America		5.4
101-150	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands		0
101-150	Duke University	United States of America		33.3
101-150	Fudan University	China		10.6
101-150	Harvard University	United States of America		5
101-150	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany		0
101-150	Leiden University	Netherlands		27.2
101-150	Lingnan University	China-Hong Kong		33.3
101-150	Manchester Metropolitan University	United Kingdom		34.9
101-150	McGill University	Canada		10.8
101-150	McMaster University	Canada		23.5
101-150	Mississippi State University	United States of America		0
101-150	National Taiwan University	China-Taiwan		7.8
101-150	New York University	United States of America		24.5
101-150	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	Norway		15.4
101-150	Oregon State University	United States of America		5.4
101-150	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States of America		19.2
101-150	Queen's University	Canada		7.8
101-150	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom		0
101-150	RMIT University	Australia		0
101-150	Shenzhen University	China		11.8
101-150	SOAS, University of London	United Kingdom		42.1
101-150	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden		13.6
101-150	The University of Georgia	United States of America		0
101-150	Tsinghua University	China		5.4
101-150	Université Paris Cité	France		0
101-150	University of Barcelona	Spain		47.1
101-150	University of Bergen	Norway		8.9
101-150	University of Bern	Switzerland		0
101-150	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom		0
101-150	University of Groningen	Netherlands		0
101-150	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States of America		33.3
101-150	University of Johannesburg	South Africa		26.1
101-150	University of Lisbon	Portugal		0
101-150	University of Maryland, College Park	United States of America		0
101-150	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States of America		7.4
101-150	University of Oregon	United States of America		5
101-150	University of Pennsylvania	United States of America		42.1
101-150	University of Plymouth	United Kingdom		34.3
101-150	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil		18.3
101-150	University of South Carolina - Columbia	United States of America		0
101-150	University of Southern California	United States of America		34.9
101-150	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	United States of America		15.7
101-150	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa		23.5
101-150	University of Twente	Netherlands		0
101-150	University of Vienna	Austria		16.2
101-150	University of Zurich	Switzerland		0
101-150	Yale University	United States of America		33.3
151-200	Charles University in Prague	Czech Republic		35.9
151-200	City University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong		0
151-200	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands		0
151-200	Florida State University	United States of America		0
151-200	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany		0
151-200	Hong Kong Baptist University	China-Hong Kong		0
151-200	Indiana University Bloomington	United States of America		0
151-200	Johns Hopkins University	United States of America		8.9
151-200	La Trobe University	Australia		0
151-200	Masaryk University	Czech Republic		13.6
151-200	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States of America		0
151-200	Monash University	Australia		0
151-200	Nanjing Normal University	China		0
151-200	Nanjing University	China		12.6
151-200	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore		7.4
151-200	National University of Ireland, Maynooth	Ireland		19.2
151-200	Paris-Saclay University	France		0
151-200	Sorbonne University	France		0
151-200	Southwest Jiaotong University	China		0
151-200	Stockholm University	Sweden		0
151-200	Tampere University	Finland		0
151-200	Technical University of Munich	Germany		0
151-200	Temple University	United States of America		0
151-200	The University of Reading	United Kingdom		0
151-200	The University of Tokyo	Japan		0
151-200	The University of Western Australia	Australia		0
151-200	Tongji University	China		0
151-200	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland		0
151-200	Umea University	Sweden		23.5
151-200	Université Grenoble Alpes	France		0
151-200	University of Alberta	Canada		16.6
151-200	University of Bonn	Germany		7.1
151-200	University of California, Davis	United States of America		0
151-200	University of California, Riverside	United States of America		33.3
151-200	University of Canterbury	New Zealand		33.3
151-200	University of Cincinnati	United States of America		20.5
151-200	University of Copenhagen	Denmark		0
151-200	University of Freiburg	Germany		23.5
151-200	University of Geneva	Switzerland		0
151-200	University of Guelph	Canada		0
151-200	University of Leicester	United Kingdom		0
151-200	University of Liege	Belgium		0
151-200	University of Montreal	Canada		0
151-200	University of Oklahoma - Norman	United States of America		0
151-200	University of Quebec Montreal	Canada		47.1
151-200	University of Victoria	Canada		38.8
151-200	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		14.4
151-200	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States of America		4.7
151-200	Western Sydney University	Australia		0
151-200	Western University	Canada		13.6
201-300	Adam Mickiewicz University	Poland		0
201-300	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom		0
201-300	Boston University	United States of America		0
201-300	Brown University	United States of America		0
201-300	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	Italy		23.5
201-300	California Institute of Technology	United States of America		0
201-300	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium		0
201-300	China Agricultural University	China		0
201-300	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain		0
201-300	Curtin University	Australia		0
201-300	Dalhousie University	Canada		0
201-300	Deakin University	Australia		10.5
201-300	Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon	France		0
201-300	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil		0
201-300	Florida International University	United States of America		0
201-300	Free University Berlin	Germany		23.5
201-300	Fuzhou University	China		0
201-300	George Mason University	United States of America		0
201-300	Guangzhou University	China		0
201-300	Gustave Eiffel University	France		0
201-300	Heidelberg University	Germany		0
201-300	Henan University	China		0
201-300	Hohai University	China		0
201-300	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China		0
201-300	James Cook University	Australia		0
201-300	Kiel University	Germany		0
201-300	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden		0
201-300	Lanzhou University	China		4.7
201-300	Leibniz University Hannover	Germany		13.6
201-300	Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge	United States of America		0
201-300	Maastricht University	Netherlands		0
201-300	Massey University	New Zealand		21.7
201-300	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	China		0
201-300	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico		5
201-300	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	United States of America		7.8
201-300	Northern Arizona University	United States of America		0
201-300	Norwegian University of Life Sciences	Norway		0
201-300	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France		0
201-300	PSL University	France		0
201-300	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands		0
201-300	Renmin University of China	China		5.7
201-300	Rhodes University	South Africa		34
201-300	San Diego State University	United States of America		0
201-300	São Paulo State University	Brazil		0
201-300	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy		7.4
201-300	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea		8.9
201-300	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China		0
201-300	Southeast University	China		0
201-300	Stanford University	United States of America		0
201-300	Stellenbosch University	South Africa		31.9
201-300	Tel Aviv University	Israel		11.8
201-300	The University of Calgary	Canada		0
201-300	The University of Waikato	New Zealand		0
201-300	Toronto Metropolitan University	Canada		0
201-300	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium		0
201-300	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom		16.6
201-300	University of Alaska - Fairbanks	United States of America		0
201-300	University of Antwerp	Belgium		0
201-300	University of Bayreuth	Germany		0
201-300	University of Bremen	Germany		0
201-300	University of California, Irvine	United States of America		0
201-300	University of California, San Diego	United States of America		0
201-300	University of Chicago	United States of America		0
201-300	University of Chile	Chile		0
201-300	University of Coimbra	Portugal		23.5
201-300	University of Cologne	Germany		0
201-300	University of Connecticut	United States of America		0
201-300	University of Eastern Finland	Finland		0
201-300	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany		14.9
201-300	University of Florence	Italy		0
201-300	University of Fribourg	Switzerland		14.9
201-300	University of Goettingen	Germany		0
201-300	University of Graz	Austria		6.8
201-300	University of Hamburg	Germany		6.8
201-300	University of Hull	United Kingdom		33.3
201-300	University of Jena	Germany		23.5
201-300	University of Leipzig	Germany		0
201-300	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia		40.8
201-300	University of Montpellier	France		0
201-300	University of Munich	Germany		0
201-300	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna	Austria		5.4
201-300	University of New England	Australia		0
201-300	University of Otago	New Zealand		13.4
201-300	University of Oulu	Finland		0
201-300	University of Padua	Italy		0
201-300	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom		10.1
201-300	University of Potsdam	Germany		10.5
201-300	University of Salzburg	Austria		10.5
201-300	University of South Florida	United States of America		0
201-300	University of Technology Sydney	Australia		33.3
201-300	University of Tehran	Iran		4.7
201-300	University of Turin	Italy		11.8
201-300	University of Turku	Finland		0
201-300	University of Warwick	United Kingdom		0
201-300	Utah State University	United States of America		0
201-300	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands		0
201-300	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium		13.6
201-300	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China		0
201-300	Xidian University	China		0
201-300	Yonsei University	Republic of Korea		33.3
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. ² Check the ARWU ranking criteria and weights

Source: ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities), Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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