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.

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	296.1	100.0
2	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	270.7	73.3
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	254.1	77.0
4	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	248.7	78.1
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	241.1	65.1
6	Harvard University Harvard University	235.9	58.2
7	University of Leeds University of Leeds	232.2	56.9
8	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	230.5	63.3
9	Columbia University Columbia University	228.9	72.0
10	Colorado State University Colorado State University	224.8	72.0
11	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	224.2	56.8
12	Peking University Peking University	221.1	63.2
13	The University of Reading The University of Reading	220.3	72.6
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	217.8	72.2
15	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	213.5	51.6
15	University of Washington University of Washington	213.5	69.3
17	Princeton University Princeton University	213.0	58.9
18	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	212.7	91.4
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	209.1	59.9
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	208.0	58.9
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	206.1	53.8
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	204.3	53.6
23	Stockholm University Stockholm University	201.9	52.5
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	200.3	50.0
25	University of East Anglia University of East Anglia	200.0	42.2
26	University of Exeter University of Exeter	199.9	43.7
27	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	199.4	48.0
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	196.9	44.4
29	University of Oxford University of Oxford	195.8	51.9
30	University of Bern University of Bern	194.2	47.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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