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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	288.0	99.2
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	254.8	100.0
3	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	252.1	85.3
4	Beihang University Beihang University	251.5	95.3
5	Jilin University Jilin University	230.5	67.4
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	229.8	69.8
7	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	229.0	83.5
8	Southeast University Southeast University	226.0	75.9
9	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	217.6	68.8
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago	215.8	79.6
11	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	212.8	76.6
12	Aalborg University Aalborg University	209.3	37.5
13	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	207.8	81.5
14	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	207.3	61.2
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	205.4	59.5
16	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	204.8	61.5
17	Tianjin University Tianjin University	203.8	76.3
18	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	202.8	37.8
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	202.8	74.2
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	202.1	63.2
21	Stanford University Stanford University	201.4	68.2
22	Chongqing University Chongqing University	200.4	64.9
23	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	200.2	81.1
23	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	200.2	61.6
25	University of Science and Technology of China	198.1	73.2
26	Imperial College London Imperial College London	197.7	58.2
27	University of Malaya University of Malaya	196.3	56.7
28	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	196.1	65.9
29	University of Oxford University of Oxford	195.1	59.8
30	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	194.9	63.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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