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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Princeton University Princeton University	362.9	60.0
2	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	311.8	94.1
3	New York University New York University	306.3	53.3
4	Stanford University Stanford University	304.9	60.5
5	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	299.5	66.8
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	293.0	71.1
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	288.8	72.2
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	287.6	60.4
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	278.3	58.1
10	University of Warwick University of Warwick	266.1	57.8
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	264.9	65.6
12	Harvard University Harvard University	259.6	44.5
13	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	257.3	52.1
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	251.0	57.9
15	Stony Brook University Stony Brook University	248.8	40.9
16	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	238.5	58.2
17	University of Chicago University of Chicago	236.8	52.4
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London	227.5	61.6
19	Columbia University Columbia University	225.4	50.2
20	Kyoto University Kyoto University	224.8	60.4
21	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	224.5	48.7
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	221.3	65.2
23	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	221.0	41.9
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	218.8	51.3
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	217.1	65.1
26	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	214.6	47.2
27	Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon	213.7	35.5
28	Paris Dauphine University (Paris 9) Paris Dauphine University (Paris 9)	213.6	40.0
29	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	212.6	64.6
30	University of Bonn University of Bonn	209.9	56.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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