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	Harvard University Harvard University	311.0	95.3
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	261.7	69.5
3	Stanford University Stanford University	246.7	67.9
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	244.0	100.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	242.1	66.1
6	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	234.2	71.4
7	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	233.5	62.1
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	231.6	68.7
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	228.2	65.2
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	228.1	68.6
11	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	227.5	58.9
12	Cornell University Cornell University	226.9	69.4
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	226.4	61.4
14	University College London University College London	224.4	62.5
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University	223.9	83.0
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	221.6	57.8
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	221.1	70.2
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto	220.4	64.1
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	219.3	67.8
20	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	218.9	69.3
21	University of Washington University of Washington	218.4	58.1
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	216.4	85.2
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	216.4	60.9
24	Ghent University Ghent University	216.0	69.9
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	216.0	57.1
26	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	213.7	68.7
27	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	213.1	90.3
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	212.8	63.7
29	Shandong University Shandong University	211.7	74.3
30	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	211.4	69.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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