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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	295.0	100.0
2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	229.3	81.3
3	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	228.4	91.4
4	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	220.4	64.3
5	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	203.8	79.4
6	University of Washington University of Washington	203.2	77.6
7	University of Utah University of Utah	198.3	66.1
8	Stanford University Stanford University	197.1	67.3
9	Columbia University Columbia University	194.8	64.3
10	University of Arizona University of Arizona	194.4	74.2
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	193.8	74.2
12	Wuhan University Wuhan University	191.8	94.7
13	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	190.5	74.2
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	187.7	87.4
15	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	187.2	69.6
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	187.1	74.5
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	187.1	74.5
18	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	185.1	64.6
19	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	184.3	61.2
20	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	183.5	77.4
21	University of Wolverhampton University of Wolverhampton	183.4	73.4
22	Arizona State University Arizona State University	183.1	68.7
23	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	182.9	68.4
24	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	182.0	79.1
24	University of Montreal University of Montreal	182.0	71.5
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	181.1	75.0
27	McGill University McGill University	181.0	66.7
28	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	178.8	46.1
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	178.4	73.2
30	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	177.6	68.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.