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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	290.1	81.7
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	236.2	67.2
3	King's College London King's College London	233.6	47.3
4	Griffith University Griffith University	228.2	63.7
5	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	225.8	67.1
6	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	225.3	70.3
7	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	223.9	65.5
8	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	218.4	65.9
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	216.3	59.4
10	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	215.7	45.8
11	University of Southampton University of Southampton	215.5	36.9
12	Maastricht University Maastricht University	215.1	38.7
13	New York University New York University	211.5	55.6
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	211.0	71.7
15	University of Washington University of Washington	210.6	60.1
16	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	210.2	41.4
17	Duke University Duke University	209.7	75.2
18	Ghent University Ghent University	207.5	39.5
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto	206.7	63.0
20	KU Leuven KU Leuven	205.8	38.5
21	Emory University Emory University	200.5	59.9
22	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	200.0	49.5
23	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	199.6	51.8
23	University of Sydney University of Sydney	199.6	65.4
25	Columbia University Columbia University	198.5	53.3
26	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	197.5	39.3
27	Monash University Monash University	196.4	66.1
27	Yale University Yale University	196.4	56.2
29	University of Alberta University of Alberta	195.9	51.3
30	Chang Gung University Chang Gung University	194.7	42.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

1
2
3
4
5
•••
10