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)	381.4	70.8
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	364.7	67.9
3	Harvard University Harvard University	352.0	55.1
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	350.7	68.4
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	337.5	64.8
6	Stanford University Stanford University	333.1	60.6
7	Northwestern University Northwestern University	324.1	59.3
8	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	304.8	58.8
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	299.3	47.8
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	295.6	80.6
11	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	290.6	100.0
12	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	281.4	60.4
13	Peking University Peking University	271.5	75.7
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London	263.5	59.7
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	258.7	57.6
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	257.2	55.2
17	University of Science and Technology of China	256.0	77.3
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	250.7	72.0
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	247.6	80.3
20	Soochow University Soochow University	246.9	69.9
21	Fudan University Fudan University	246.0	65.4
22	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	243.1	45.6
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	242.5	84.1
24	Seoul National University Seoul National University	241.9	73.4
25	Princeton University Princeton University	241.4	39.5
26	Cornell University Cornell University	238.3	42.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	238.3	59.5
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	238.2	53.0
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	236.9	46.3
30	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	236.2	64.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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