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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Ghent University Ghent University	271.7	78.3
2	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover	233.6	72.3
3	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	231.6	64.0
4	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	231.2	66.8
5	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	230.1	70.9
6	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	229.4	100.0
7	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College	228.7	80.2
8	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	222.3	55.4
9	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	219.4	51.7
10	University of Guelph University of Guelph	218.5	75.1
11	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	217.1	42.8
12	Iowa State University Iowa State University	216.8	58.4
13	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid	215.4	51.3
14	University of Bern University of Bern	214.1	61.7
15	Utrecht University Utrecht University	213.0	65.2
16	University of Zurich University of Zurich	210.4	70.4
17	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	209.5	63.2
18	University of Sydney University of Sydney	209.3	58.1
19	University of Hannover University of Hannover	208.4	62.6
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	208.3	62.3
21	Cornell University Cornell University	206.6	71.4
22	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	206.3	63.5
23	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool	205.7	61.0
24	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	204.1	72.3
25	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	203.1	81.6
26	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	202.4	42.4
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	198.4	52.3
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	195.7	35.5
29	The University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow	195.0	50.1
30	Kansas State University Kansas State University	193.2	55.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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