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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	296.1	100.0	81.3	74.0	100.0
2	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France	270.7	73.3	87.8	93.0	91.1
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	254.1	77.0	81.7	79.2	79.6
4	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 France	248.7	78.1	76.7	91.7	75.6
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	241.1	65.1	90.2	90.5	67.8
6	Harvard University Harvard University United States	235.9	58.2	89.5	82.4	71.8
7	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	232.2	56.9	86.8	89.7	70.6
8	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	230.5	63.3	75.3	88.3	74.3
9	Columbia University Columbia University United States	228.9	72.0	87.0	77.3	54.5
10	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	224.8	72.0	76.6	64.9	63.3
11	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki Finland	224.2	56.8	77.2	91.3	72.0
12	Peking University Peking University China	221.1	63.2	79.1	78.8	63.1
13	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	220.3	72.6	81.7	79.0	50.2
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	217.8	72.2	80.4	77.7	49.6
15	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	213.5	51.6	89.6	80.1	56.3
15	University of Washington University of Washington United States	213.5	69.3	79.8	64.2	51.6
17	Princeton University Princeton University United States	213.0	58.9	90.1	75.8	48.8
18	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	212.7	91.4	59.2	70.5	47.9
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	209.1	59.9	81.2	76.8	52.7
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	208.0	58.9	78.9	75.0	55.3
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	206.1	53.8	85.3	77.4	51.6
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	204.3	53.6	86.0	70.9	50.5
23	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	201.9	52.5	76.2	93.6	54.5
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	200.3	50.0	74.8	89.2	57.7
25	University of East Anglia University of East Anglia United Kingdom	200.0	42.2	94.9	91.6	44.6
26	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	199.9	43.7	97.3	79.3	43.0
27	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	199.4	48.0	90.0	91.0	43.3
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	196.9	44.4	85.9	77.7	51.0
29	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	195.8	51.9	82.8	83.8	44.3
30	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	194.2	47.9	82.8	90.0	45.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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