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 Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	280.3	100.0
2	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	274.9	84.3
3	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	266.8	99.1
4	Michigan State University Michigan State University	245.2	83.8
5	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	227.6	68.7
6	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	222.2	79.3
7	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	219.6	76.6
8	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	219.3	77.7
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	216.2	74.9
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	212.9	80.6
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	211.8	72.5
12	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	209.5	74.4
13	University of Vienna University of Vienna	208.9	64.3
14	University of Southern California University of Southern California	206.7	73.4
15	University of Arizona University of Arizona	204.9	66.5
16	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	202.5	55.9
17	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	202.4	71.2
18	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	197.0	63.9
19	Cornell University Cornell University	196.9	58.8
20	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	187.9	65.1
21	University of Zurich University of Zurich	187.5	57.7
22	Northwestern University Northwestern University	187.3	63.5
23	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	182.1	62.7
24	University of Munich University of Munich	177.7	60.0
25	London School of Economics and Political Science	175.9	65.7
26	University of Kentucky University of Kentucky	173.1	59.0
27	University of Washington University of Washington	173.0	63.1
28	KU Leuven KU Leuven	172.2	56.8
28	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	172.2	60.0
30	University of Missouri - Columbia University of Missouri - Columbia	171.6	61.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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