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.

497 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	292.7	98.9
2	University of Oxford University of Oxford	290.0	98.5
3	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	283.4	100.0
4	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	274.7	94.0
5	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	271.9	93.4
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	269.6	91.6
7	University of Exeter University of Exeter	268.6	83.1
8	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	263.5	82.8
9	James Cook University James Cook University	253.2	89.9
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	252.9	75.5
11	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	248.3	65.3
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	243.7	88.8
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	242.5	72.9
14	University of Florida University of Florida	242.2	94.1
15	University of Zurich University of Zurich	240.9	73.8
16	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	240.0	97.8
17	University of Arizona University of Arizona	239.4	73.9
18	Colorado State University Colorado State University	239.3	83.7
19	Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3 Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3	239.0	68.6
20	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	238.8	68.6
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	238.1	84.2
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	237.9	71.0
23	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	237.1	90.6
24	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	235.1	83.7
25	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	234.8	66.8
26	Cornell University Cornell University	233.9	86.0
27	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	233.4	87.0
28	Stanford University Stanford University	232.8	68.1
29	Montpellier SupAgro Montpellier SupAgro	232.4	71.7
30	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	229.8	65.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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