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)	345.9	58.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	325.9	47.1
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	324.7	51.2
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	285.6	49.5
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	285.5	63.1
6	Princeton University Princeton University	257.7	36.4
7	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	238.4	35.1
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	236.7	100.0
9	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	233.8	35.2
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	233.7	46.0
11	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	227.9	50.7
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	225.2	82.3
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	223.4	48.3
14	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	221.1	26.8
15	Harvard University Harvard University	220.5	31.9
16	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	220.4	43.7
17	Aalborg University Aalborg University	219.5	51.5
18	Lund University Lund University	218.2	30.0
19	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	216.2	94.8
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	215.9	52.5
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	215.4	64.0
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	214.1	45.6
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	212.8	78.2
24	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	211.1	47.0
25	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	210.3	43.7
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	210.1	75.0
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	209.6	51.7
28	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	209.1	43.3
29	Columbia University Columbia University	208.9	33.5
30	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	208.8	39.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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