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	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	272.7	56.2
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	256.0	58.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	253.5	100.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University	253.2	52.7
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	251.8	47.2
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	246.5	65.7
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	230.2	60.3
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	228.9	51.3
9	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	227.0	64.5
10	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	226.9	70.6
11	Peking University Peking University	225.9	55.1
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	225.7	58.5
13	University of Science and Technology of China	223.4	79.0
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London	218.7	58.9
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	216.9	39.9
16	Northwestern University Northwestern University	216.5	27.6
17	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	216.3	67.2
18	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	215.0	81.6
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	214.9	73.1
20	Soochow University Soochow University	213.8	39.2
21	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	213.6	37.9
22	Seoul National University Seoul National University	212.2	55.8
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	209.8	47.0
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	209.3	74.1
25	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	209.1	39.8
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	207.6	56.7
27	Tianjin University Tianjin University	205.4	74.4
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	203.9	31.4
29	Monash University Monash University	203.6	41.5
30	University of Washington University of Washington	201.9	32.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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