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	Tongji University Tongji University	354.1	100.0
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	273.8	53.5
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	256.5	82.0
4	Lehigh University Lehigh University	255.1	33.4
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	247.5	52.9
6	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	246.4	52.6
7	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	237.1	47.7
8	University of Canterbury University of Canterbury	232.9	31.8
9	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	227.5	59.8
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	222.4	58.3
11	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	219.6	36.9
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	218.4	55.5
13	Western University Western University	215.4	35.5
14	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	214.3	58.3
15	Southeast University Southeast University	213.1	73.8
16	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	210.6	34.2
17	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	202.4	57.0
17	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	202.4	38.3
19	Colorado State University Colorado State University	202.3	37.6
20	Hunan University Hunan University	199.4	50.6
21	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	198.6	69.1
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	198.3	45.2
23	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	194.8	46.2
24	University of Sydney University of Sydney	194.2	43.2
25	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	194.1	47.8
26	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	192.9	69.7
27	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	192.3	47.1
28	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	191.2	51.8
29	McMaster University McMaster University	191.0	32.3
30	University of Stuttgart University of Stuttgart	190.7	31.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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