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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	398.3	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	320.9	88.8
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	307.7	76.0
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	300.5	88.7
5	Columbia University Columbia University	295.3	83.4
6	Duke University Duke University	294.8	80.1
7	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	291.3	73.8
8	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	274.0	69.4
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago	269.2	69.6
10	Princeton University Princeton University	268.1	54.1
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	266.7	66.5
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	261.4	68.5
13	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	261.0	60.2
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	260.2	89.0
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	253.5	69.7
16	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	253.0	69.7
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	251.9	65.6
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	241.7	78.6
19	University of Washington University of Washington	237.8	84.0
20	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	227.4	70.7
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	225.6	73.6
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	224.2	71.8
23	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	218.5	68.2
24	University of Warwick University of Warwick	211.5	74.2
25	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	208.8	77.4
26	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	208.2	61.9
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	206.3	63.4
28	Yale University Yale University	206.2	63.9
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	205.6	52.9
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford	203.4	78.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.