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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	299.9	51.4
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	270.5	97.6
3	Stanford University Stanford University	269.9	36.7
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	263.3	32.9
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	263.1	91.5
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	262.3	47.5
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	259.1	100.0
8	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	257.5	27.6
9	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	255.9	52.6
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	246.4	24.2
11	Harvard University Harvard University	236.9	23.6
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	235.4	58.5
13	Imperial College London Imperial College London	233.0	50.9
14	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	228.8	52.3
15	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	226.5	85.5
16	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	225.4	73.2
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	224.2	36.1
18	Beihang University Beihang University	223.4	80.5
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	220.8	37.6
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	220.0	51.6
21	University of Science and Technology of China	216.8	50.3
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	216.7	50.2
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	213.0	34.7
24	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	208.4	63.4
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	206.1	71.0
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	205.6	60.0
27	Princeton University Princeton University	205.0	31.1
28	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	204.0	72.9
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University	199.3	70.1
30	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	198.6	39.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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