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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	288.9	100.0
2	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	278.9	91.6
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	266.0	87.7
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	259.4	73.7
5	University of Campinas University of Campinas	243.1	78.1
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	242.2	74.7
7	Ghent University Ghent University	239.6	69.7
8	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	239.1	78.1
9	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst	238.1	53.8
10	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	234.9	69.9
11	University of Porto University of Porto	226.1	64.6
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	224.5	70.8
13	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	222.8	67.7
14	KU Leuven KU Leuven	222.1	60.4
15	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	222.0	64.8
16	Nanchang University Nanchang University	221.7	57.3
17	University College Dublin University College Dublin	220.7	55.3
18	University of Guelph University of Guelph	220.2	66.7
19	Cornell University Cornell University	213.1	67.8
20	University of Bologna University of Bologna	208.5	58.3
21	University of Valencia University of Valencia	208.4	52.2
22	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	207.8	44.3
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	205.8	52.8
24	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	204.9	55.3
25	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	203.8	51.6
26	University of Parma University of Parma	201.0	54.5
27	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia	200.9	54.9
28	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	199.4	55.3
28	University of Milan University of Milan	199.4	60.5
30	Aarhus University Aarhus University	198.0	55.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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