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 Science and Technology Beijing	273.1	100.0
2	Central South University Central South University	232.4	95.1
3	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	225.1	80.6
4	Tohoku University Tohoku University	220.3	64.1
5	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	215.5	73.0
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	213.7	33.3
7	Pohang University of Science and Technology	213.3	48.4
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	211.2	59.4
9	Monash University Monash University	209.1	35.1
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	205.6	34.2
11	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	199.2	36.3
12	Northwestern University Northwestern University	192.9	27.3
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	192.9	58.4
14	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	192.6	67.6
15	University of Leoben University of Leoben	192.4	36.1
16	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	190.3	34.7
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	190.2	27.3
18	Chongqing University Chongqing University	189.1	58.2
19	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	188.1	33.3
20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	188.0	25.6
21	RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University	187.3	36.0
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	186.6	23.4
23	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	185.8	37.8
24	University of Chicago University of Chicago	182.9	27.2
25	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	180.1	31.6
26	Ruhr University Bochum Ruhr University Bochum	179.0	23.5
27	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	178.9	47.1
28	Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Science	178.6	34.2
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	178.3	28.0
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	178.2	26.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.