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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	318.1	47.2
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	304.3	55.6
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	291.0	48.0
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	282.9	100.0
5	University of Toronto University of Toronto	279.6	41.0
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	276.5	45.8
7	Imperial College London Imperial College London	276.2	47.0
8	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	265.3	43.4
9	Harvard University Harvard University	262.4	34.2
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	261.3	51.2
11	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	260.1	34.1
12	Stanford University Stanford University	259.8	34.3
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	252.1	68.2
14	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	242.0	55.6
15	University of Groningen University of Groningen	234.6	33.8
16	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	233.8	46.0
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	233.1	78.4
18	The Australian National University The Australian National University	233.0	30.9
19	Southeast University Southeast University	231.2	68.4
20	Beihang University Beihang University	229.3	84.0
21	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	223.9	31.5
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	223.9	73.4
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	216.4	27.9
24	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	216.1	43.5
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	215.2	42.9
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	214.2	74.7
27	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	210.7	43.5
28	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	210.2	76.2
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	209.0	58.1
30	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	207.6	46.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.