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	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	302.6	99.2
2	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	266.8	91.5
3	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	263.9	92.3
4	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	259.8	84.1
5	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	252.5	89.4
6	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	250.1	81.5
7	University of Florida University of Florida	245.0	88.4
8	Cornell University Cornell University	242.6	73.5
9	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	237.5	100.0
10	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	237.1	76.1
11	Michigan State University Michigan State University	233.3	69.3
12	Ghent University Ghent University	231.7	68.1
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	231.5	68.7
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	230.2	71.9
15	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	229.0	68.2
16	Aarhus University Aarhus University	228.0	67.0
17	AgroParisTech AgroParisTech	223.7	62.5
18	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	223.2	67.2
19	Iowa State University Iowa State University	222.1	65.8
20	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	221.5	63.0
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	221.5	64.9
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	219.0	62.7
23	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	215.2	61.4
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	211.5	63.6
25	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	210.4	68.8
26	University of Guelph University of Guelph	209.3	64.1
27	Oregon State University Oregon State University	209.1	66.5
28	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	208.0	59.5
29	São Paulo State University São Paulo State University	207.2	96.6
30	Washington State University Washington State University	205.6	61.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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