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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	345.9	58.2	79.2	69.7	94.6	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	325.9	47.1	81.6	70.6	88.9	94.3
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	324.7	51.2	84.4	72.6	100.0	74.5
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	285.6	49.5	76.9	64.7	79.5	66.7
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	285.5	63.1	75.6	65.0	76.1	57.7
6	Princeton University Princeton University United States	257.7	36.4	100.0	77.1	72.5	33.3
7	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	238.4	35.1	80.3	69.8	51.3	57.7
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	236.7	100.0	78.3	62.5	45.9	0.0
9	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	233.8	35.2	81.0	56.1	39.7	66.7
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	233.7	46.0	85.7	81.0	85.8	0.0
11	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	227.9	50.7	73.3	60.4	91.8	0.0
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	225.2	82.3	80.9	80.8	45.9	0.0
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	223.4	48.3	76.1	65.7	85.8	0.0
14	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	221.1	26.8	83.7	65.7	39.7	57.7
15	Harvard University Harvard University United States	220.5	31.9	75.2	74.8	51.3	47.1
16	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	220.4	43.7	87.7	64.7	76.1	0.0
17	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	219.5	51.5	100.0	83.5	51.3	0.0
18	Lund University Lund University Sweden	218.2	30.0	94.5	71.0	32.4	47.1
19	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	216.2	94.8	64.2	56.6	45.9	0.0
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	215.9	52.5	75.1	61.7	76.1	0.0
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	215.4	64.0	89.6	79.6	45.9	0.0
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	214.1	45.6	78.9	67.5	76.1	0.0
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	212.8	78.2	77.3	56.9	45.9	0.0
24	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	211.1	47.0	100.0	64.0	51.3	0.0
25	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	210.3	43.7	81.4	63.3	72.5	0.0
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	210.1	75.0	90.5	61.0	32.4	0.0
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	209.6	51.7	73.3	78.4	68.8	0.0
28	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	209.1	43.3	73.8	64.5	45.9	33.3
29	Columbia University Columbia University United States	208.9	33.5	87.9	74.7	72.5	0.0
30	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	208.8	39.7	82.9	68.4	72.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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