2019 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	373.6	75.2	99.7	69.6	100.0	84.8
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	351.8	61.8	100.0	71.2	81.6	94.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	347.9	69.6	100.0	69.9	84.6	79.8
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	328.8	60.9	100.0	66.5	89.5	65.1
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	328.7	46.2	100.0	62.5	70.0	100.0
6	Harvard University Harvard University United States	325.7	58.8	97.0	74.9	76.6	78.3
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	289.9	69.6	83.1	78.1	75.1	46.5
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	287.2	66.1	89.1	83.1	78.4	36.9
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	286.8	70.8	89.8	66.1	80.4	32.6
10	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	275.6	85.9	72.4	50.1	92.2	15.1
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	275.4	57.5	93.9	61.2	66.5	45.2
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	272.5	62.5	99.8	76.2	52.4	42.6
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	272.4	82.3	100.0	80.7	73.9	0.0
14	University of Science and Technology of China China	265.9	88.5	94.0	49.4	73.5	0.0
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	262.2	65.9	90.8	78.0	74.9	15.1
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	260.6	95.8	90.4	49.9	64.5	0.0
17	Columbia University Columbia University United States	259.7	42.3	95.7	69.4	54.1	53.7
18	Peking University Peking University China	259.0	86.9	88.6	51.4	73.2	0.0
19	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	254.4	51.7	81.0	67.2	56.1	52.2
20	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	251.9	78.6	75.1	51.4	87.9	0.0
21	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	249.2	50.0	100.0	71.6	65.4	19.5
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	243.5	49.3	90.2	65.0	60.9	30.2
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	242.6	42.2	94.0	61.8	55.1	38.9
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	242.2	72.4	94.0	76.6	60.5	0.0
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	241.1	98.6	82.2	47.8	50.7	0.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	240.6	59.8	100.0	83.2	64.1	0.0
27	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	237.9	44.9	95.3	71.7	55.8	27.5
28	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	237.7	84.7	86.8	47.0	56.8	0.0
29	Fudan University Fudan University China	235.9	77.8	87.5	49.8	60.6	0.0
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	235.9	56.1	85.7	62.9	69.3	12.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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