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	300.3	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	225.8	62.3
3	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	222.9	65.1
4	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	222.7	69.3
5	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	219.1	80.7
6	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	217.0	81.2
7	Monash University Monash University	216.2	67.4
8	University of Toronto University of Toronto	214.1	77.9
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	211.3	56.6
10	University College London University College London	207.6	64.9
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	207.1	54.7
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	203.4	38.4
13	University of Washington University of Washington	199.9	65.1
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London	199.6	60.4
15	Stanford University Stanford University	199.5	53.1
16	Duke University Duke University	198.9	64.3
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	198.7	53.3
18	Uppsala University Uppsala University	197.1	58.0
19	Yale University Yale University	195.8	55.8
20	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	194.1	59.0
21	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	191.4	57.5
22	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	190.9	66.2
23	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	189.9	73.3
24	King's College London King's College London	189.8	61.0
25	Utrecht University Utrecht University	189.6	71.5
26	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	189.2	57.9
27	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	189.0	65.0
28	KU Leuven KU Leuven	188.9	71.4
29	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	188.5	48.7
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	184.2	69.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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