2019 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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Stanford University Stanford University	343.4	67.5
2	Harvard University Harvard University	334.4	69.6
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	331.1	79.4
4	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	307.2	71.8
5	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	305.5	62.9
6	Michigan State University Michigan State University	301.3	63.0
7	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	282.5	65.0
8	Princeton University Princeton University	274.4	44.0
8	University of Alberta University of Alberta	274.4	61.7
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	272.6	85.0
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	271.7	52.2
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	269.2	100.0
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	268.1	69.6
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	261.6	65.0
15	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	257.2	47.0
16	Peking University Peking University	250.7	82.3
17	Nanjing University Nanjing University	250.6	85.3
18	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	247.4	92.9
19	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	247.2	54.1
20	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	245.0	58.6
21	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	239.7	86.8
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	237.3	39.4
23	Stockholm University Stockholm University	230.4	63.4
24	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	230.0	84.5
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	226.9	67.8
26	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	221.4	63.9
27	University of Washington University of Washington	221.1	66.0
28	Utrecht University Utrecht University	220.7	70.8
29	Duke University Duke University	220.5	60.5
30	University of Toronto University of Toronto	220.3	65.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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