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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Arizona University of Arizona	288.4	76.1
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	281.0	76.7
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	271.6	96.0
4	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	265.9	80.9
5	Hohai University Hohai University	261.4	100.0
6	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	260.4	94.9
7	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	259.8	70.0
8	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	256.5	66.6
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	252.8	86.1
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	252.4	59.4
11	University of Bristol University of Bristol	252.3	57.9
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	252.0	72.6
13	Wuhan University Wuhan University	247.2	78.3
14	Flinders University Flinders University	246.8	59.9
15	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	242.0	56.1
16	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	240.0	43.3
17	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	235.2	80.0
18	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	234.8	58.3
19	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	234.5	61.8
20	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	233.9	73.6
21	Princeton University Princeton University	231.0	38.8
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	229.6	56.2
23	Cornell University Cornell University	223.6	51.9
24	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	222.5	68.9
25	University of Padua University of Padua	222.2	51.6
26	Stanford University Stanford University	221.4	54.7
27	Colorado School of Mines Colorado School of Mines	219.1	49.4
28	Utrecht University Utrecht University	218.8	54.3
29	University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen	217.7	44.3
30	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	217.2	36.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.