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)	311.3	51.5
2	Stanford University Stanford University	277.6	40.7
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University	274.4	99.0
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	271.0	100.0
5	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	270.8	94.0
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	267.3	50.3
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	260.4	46.4
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	257.6	26.2
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	256.3	43.8
10	East China University of Science and Technology	256.0	89.8
11	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	252.5	75.7
12	Princeton University Princeton University	247.4	38.3
13	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	246.0	77.0
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	246.0	30.1
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	236.5	62.7
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	229.4	57.3
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	226.5	48.4
18	University of Science and Technology of China	222.7	64.4
19	University of Delaware University of Delaware	221.2	29.8
20	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	218.8	40.1
21	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	215.7	74.6
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London	212.6	62.4
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	212.6	63.3
24	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing	211.7	81.6
25	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	207.4	40.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	205.6	37.9
27	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	205.1	51.2
28	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	203.9	55.0
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	202.3	38.0
30	NanJing Tech University NanJing Tech University	201.4	63.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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