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	AWARD
1	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	299.9	51.4	73.5	68.9	100.0	61.2
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	270.5	97.6	76.0	45.4	87.8	0.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	269.9	36.7	80.4	63.3	69.5	70.7
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	263.3	32.9	78.3	85.7	35.0	100.0
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	263.1	91.5	72.0	52.7	89.1	0.0
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	262.3	47.5	78.2	69.8	72.6	50.0
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	259.1	100.0	70.3	49.3	79.0	0.0
8	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	257.5	27.6	69.1	77.4	51.8	93.5
9	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	255.9	52.6	68.3	62.9	56.3	66.1
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	246.4	24.2	76.4	67.8	53.1	79.1
11	Harvard University Harvard University United States	236.9	23.6	78.7	66.4	34.7	86.6
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	235.4	58.5	74.5	64.5	64.4	25.0
13	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	233.0	50.9	81.4	70.8	86.5	0.0
14	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	228.8	52.3	70.3	68.5	42.4	50.0
15	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	226.5	85.5	70.9	47.8	60.5	0.0
16	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	225.4	73.2	78.3	47.2	64.4	0.0
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	224.2	36.1	66.6	61.9	47.9	61.2
18	Beihang University Beihang University China	223.4	80.5	69.5	45.9	64.3	0.0
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	220.8	37.6	75.1	73.3	50.2	43.3
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	220.0	51.6	65.0	46.0	51.0	43.3
21	University of Science and Technology of China China	216.8	50.3	86.9	56.9	68.3	0.0
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	216.7	50.2	71.5	66.5	56.7	25.0
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	213.0	34.7	69.8	54.2	41.7	55.9
24	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	208.4	63.4	69.5	64.5	62.7	0.0
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	206.1	71.0	66.1	52.7	58.4	0.0
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	205.6	60.0	70.4	60.1	63.1	0.0
27	Princeton University Princeton University United States	205.0	31.1	91.0	84.4	66.0	0.0
28	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	204.0	72.9	67.5	49.9	53.7	0.0
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	199.3	70.1	70.2	54.9	48.1	0.0
30	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia	198.6	39.0	100.0	100.0	39.7	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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