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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	310.8	98.8
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	286.7	85.6
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	286.3	100.0
4	Peking University Peking University	281.7	92.5
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	280.2	82.5
6	Stanford University Stanford University	276.7	75.2
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	272.8	79.8
8	University of Science and Technology of China	266.7	87.0
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	266.0	84.7
10	Harvard University Harvard University	265.4	73.9
11	Soochow University Soochow University	259.6	80.6
12	Fudan University Fudan University	250.8	78.7
13	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	248.8	80.2
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	248.8	81.9
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University	247.6	86.6
16	Northwestern University Northwestern University	246.8	70.3
17	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	243.7	61.0
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	242.9	70.7
19	Rice University Rice University	240.9	57.4
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	240.8	67.5
21	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	238.7	85.4
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago	235.1	71.6
23	Jilin University Jilin University	231.5	84.2
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	231.3	57.5
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	231.0	84.2
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	230.5	73.7
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	230.1	64.5
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	228.3	60.7
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University	228.2	80.6
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	223.8	65.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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