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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	391.2	88.3
2	Stanford University Stanford University	351.4	80.2
3	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	350.4	100.0
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	348.4	89.8
5	University of Chicago University of Chicago	339.4	82.5
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	336.9	84.8
7	Princeton University Princeton University	335.9	71.5
8	Harvard University Harvard University	331.8	88.4
9	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	302.4	78.2
10	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	299.0	59.8
11	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	294.3	99.3
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	294.1	58.5
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	293.3	61.3
14	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	289.5	59.6
15	University of Washington University of Washington	283.1	55.9
16	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	269.5	88.4
17	Cornell University Cornell University	267.9	53.4
18	University of Oxford University of Oxford	267.3	78.0
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	266.1	62.1
20	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	259.5	72.9
21	Columbia University Columbia University	259.0	55.6
22	University of Munich University of Munich	251.8	58.5
23	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	251.7	72.1
24	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	250.4	42.0
25	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	249.0	88.8
26	Nagoya University Nagoya University	248.6	63.1
27	Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris	247.0	38.2
28	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	246.6	66.1
29	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	243.0	49.9
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London	242.5	70.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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