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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	373.6	75.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	351.8	61.8
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	347.9	69.6
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	328.8	60.9
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	328.7	46.2
6	Harvard University Harvard University	325.7	58.8
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	289.9	69.6
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	287.2	66.1
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago	286.8	70.8
10	Kyoto University Kyoto University	275.6	85.9
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	275.4	57.5
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	272.5	62.5
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	272.4	82.3
14	University of Science and Technology of China	265.9	88.5
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	262.2	65.9
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	260.6	95.8
17	Columbia University Columbia University	259.7	42.3
18	Peking University Peking University	259.0	86.9
19	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	254.4	51.7
20	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	251.9	78.6
21	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	249.2	50.0
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	243.5	49.3
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	242.6	42.2
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	242.2	72.4
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	241.1	98.6
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	240.6	59.8
27	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	237.9	44.9
28	Nanjing University Nanjing University	237.7	84.7
29	Fudan University Fudan University	235.9	77.8
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	235.9	56.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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