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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	279.7	86.1
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	256.0	100.0
3	Xidian University Xidian University	250.8	93.1
4	Southeast University Southeast University	247.8	77.6
5	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	247.5	87.6
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	246.3	65.4
7	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	236.1	50.4
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	234.1	50.4
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	227.9	59.7
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	227.1	69.2
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	223.8	51.2
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	215.3	57.5
13	University of Southampton University of Southampton	214.6	45.8
14	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec	213.7	44.4
15	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	213.6	52.0
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	210.1	48.6
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	209.0	40.0
18	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	208.7	44.7
19	Singapore University of Technology & Design	205.7	35.9
20	University of Houston University of Houston	203.7	36.9
21	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	200.9	49.5
22	Aalto University Aalto University	198.8	47.1
23	Peking University Peking University	196.2	45.6
24	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	194.3	59.6
25	University of Science and Technology of China	193.5	49.4
26	Princeton University Princeton University	192.8	32.5
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	192.6	56.3
28	Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast	191.2	32.2
29	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	190.7	38.1
30	University College London University College London	190.4	40.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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