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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	283.3	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	239.8	60.9
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	223.5	53.4
4	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	217.0	64.3
5	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	205.1	47.3
6	University of Iceland University of Iceland	197.2	30.4
7	Xidian University Xidian University	196.1	56.8
8	Boston University Boston University	188.5	29.2
9	University of Valencia University of Valencia	187.0	34.0
10	University of Twente University of Twente	184.0	45.0
11	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	183.1	38.4
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	182.1	35.0
13	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	181.4	37.3
14	Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble	180.8	25.5
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	180.4	30.4
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	179.4	44.1
17	University of Zurich University of Zurich	178.6	28.5
18	University of Trento University of Trento	178.0	28.9
19	University of Lisbon University of Lisbon	175.4	26.8
20	Nanjing University Nanjing University	175.2	45.4
20	Peking University Peking University	175.2	42.1
22	South Dakota State University South Dakota State University	174.8	28.5
23	University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston	174.5	21.2
24	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	173.3	28.5
25	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	172.4	28.5
26	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	169.2	40.4
27	Monash University Monash University	168.2	24.0
27	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	168.2	24.6
29	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	165.8	39.3
30	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	165.7	33.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.