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)	360.5	72.4
2	Stanford University Stanford University	319.0	68.3
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	299.8	57.9
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	291.9	69.6
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	271.1	63.8
6	Harvard University Harvard University	251.6	56.3
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	247.3	100.0
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	243.6	50.5
9	Princeton University Princeton University	242.6	45.0
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	240.1	58.7
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	231.5	53.9
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	230.2	54.6
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	227.2	85.7
14	Cornell University Cornell University	223.4	43.1
15	University of Southern California University of Southern California	220.9	56.9
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.2	75.3
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	211.8	38.0
18	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	209.8	64.3
19	University College London University College London	207.3	55.5
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	206.9	58.4
21	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	206.0	47.6
22	Columbia University Columbia University	205.5	49.3
23	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	205.0	56.6
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	203.7	60.9
25	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	202.6	34.6
26	University of Washington University of Washington	202.4	47.3
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	201.9	81.3
27	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	201.9	54.2
29	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	201.1	56.3
30	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	200.8	44.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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