ShanghaiRanking 2024: Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (Public Health)

ShanghaiRanking 2024

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. [Learn more: ShanghaiRanking]

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (Public Health)

Here are the top 100 institutions in the field of Public Health, according to the ShanghaiRanking 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects:

1. Harvard University
2. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
3. University College London
4. Johns Hopkins University
5. University of Oxford
6. University of California, San Francisco
7. University of Toronto
8. University of Washington
9. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10. University of Sydney
11. Columbia University
12. University of California, Los Angeles
13. Yale University
14. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
15. The University of Hong Kong
16. Emory University
17. Imperial College London
18. University of Pennsylvania
19. Stanford University
20. The University of New South Wales
21. Erasmus University Rotterdam
22. University of Sao Paulo
23. University of Ottawa
24. Boston University
25. The University of Melbourne
26. University of Bristol
27. King’s College London
28. Karolinska Institute
29. University of British Columbia
30. The University of Queensland
31. The University of Edinburgh
32. National University of Singapore
33. University of Cambridge
34. University of Copenhagen
35. University of Amsterdam
36. McMaster University
37. Université Paris Cité
38. New York University
39. University of Pittsburgh
40. Monash University
41. Washington University in St. Louis
42. The University of Glasgow
43. Deakin University
44. University of California, San Diego
45. Utrecht University
46. Duke University
47. Curtin University
48. University of Liverpool
49. Fudan University
50. University of California, Davis
51. – 75: Brown University, Case Western Reserve University, Ghent University, Leiden University, Northwestern University, Peking University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick, The Ohio State University – Columbus, The University of Sheffield, Tufts University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Bern, University of Cape Town, University of Florida, University of Geneva, University of Montreal, University of Munich, University of Nottingham, University of Southampton, University of Southern California, University of Utah, University of Waterloo, University of York, Vanderbilt University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
52. –100: Aarhus University, Aix Marseille University, Baylor College of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Maastricht University, McGill University, Peking Union Medical College, Radboud University Nijmegen, Sun Yat-sen University, The University of Manchester, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Alberta, University of Barcelona, University of Birmingham, University of California, Berkeley, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Helsinki, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Milan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, University of Southern Denmark, University of Warwick, University of Zurich.

This ranking evaluates institutions based on research output, influence, international collaboration, research quality, and awards. The list includes universities globally recognized for their impact on public health research and policy development. You can view the full ranking and explore additional details on the official ShanghaiRanking website.

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