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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	354.2	100.0
2	University College London University College London	324.3	69.0
3	Columbia University Columbia University	299.8	52.1
4	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	265.0	24.5
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	261.8	41.0
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	256.6	55.5
7	University of Zurich University of Zurich	255.3	46.5
8	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	243.4	35.1
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	241.4	69.8
10	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	237.0	46.6
11	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	232.2	59.4
12	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	226.6	60.1
13	Stanford University Stanford University	223.2	54.6
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.2	65.1
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	222.0	57.4
16	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	216.7	22.2
17	Yale University Yale University	215.5	52.4
18	University of Washington University of Washington	210.4	55.6
19	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	210.1	34.4
20	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	209.6	53.2
21	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	209.3	56.9
22	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	209.0	32.0
23	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	208.8	47.7
24	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	206.8	55.0
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London	205.4	49.2
26	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg	204.3	22.1
27	King's College London King's College London	203.7	47.4
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	203.7	52.8
29	McGill University McGill University	201.2	51.2
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	200.5	51.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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