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	360.7	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	315.8	57.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University	305.3	60.7
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	284.9	62.8
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	282.6	29.3
6	Columbia University Columbia University	279.0	49.0
7	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	277.0	56.4
8	University of Washington University of Washington	276.2	62.5
9	University College London University College London	266.0	60.5
10	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	258.8	63.2
11	Yale University Yale University	255.7	53.7
12	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	254.3	39.8
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	247.7	53.4
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	233.2	52.5
15	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	229.6	50.6
16	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	229.5	31.3
17	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	220.2	26.4
18	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	213.4	46.5
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	210.2	60.4
20	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	209.2	22.9
21	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	208.7	25.4
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford	205.6	65.4
23	Cornell University Cornell University	205.4	60.4
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	203.7	64.7
25	Cardiff University Cardiff University	202.5	31.2
26	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	202.1	59.3
27	Kyoto University Kyoto University	201.7	52.5
28	Princeton University Princeton University	200.6	29.6
29	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	197.0	55.8
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	196.0	59.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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