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	Harvard University Harvard University	292.9	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	269.0	76.7
3	Fudan University Fudan University	247.0	52.1
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	242.5	60.6
5	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	234.9	67.4
6	Seoul National University Seoul National University	226.8	63.3
7	Soochow University Soochow University	226.2	45.0
8	Stanford University Stanford University	224.4	67.9
9	Peking University Peking University	223.7	52.1
10	Sichuan University Sichuan University	222.3	57.1
11	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	217.7	63.2
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	214.0	64.4
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	213.0	56.1
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	212.4	66.1
15	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	208.4	60.5
16	University College London University College London	203.3	70.0
17	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	202.4	58.2
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London	201.6	61.0
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	201.2	55.0
20	Korea University Korea University	197.4	46.8
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	196.3	64.6
22	Utrecht University Utrecht University	195.8	49.4
23	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	195.5	55.5
24	Emory University Emory University	195.1	49.0
25	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	193.6	28.1
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	193.5	51.1
27	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	192.8	46.4
28	Columbia University Columbia University	192.4	53.5
29	Wake Forest University Wake Forest University	191.2	45.2
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University	188.5	50.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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