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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	318.1	47.2	63.9	66.5	93.6	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	304.3	55.6	81.6	68.3	100.0	53.5
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	291.0	48.0	82.1	79.3	79.6	65.5
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	282.9	100.0	86.7	61.5	83.9	0.0
5	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	279.6	41.0	82.9	73.6	56.5	84.5
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	276.5	45.8	70.4	67.1	71.3	75.6
7	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	276.2	47.0	69.1	86.3	77.3	65.5
8	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia	265.3	43.4	65.3	90.4	73.0	65.5
9	Harvard University Harvard University United States	262.4	34.2	100.0	70.2	48.7	65.5
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	261.3	51.2	68.7	62.7	75.4	53.5
11	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	260.1	34.1	80.7	76.6	76.5	53.5
12	Stanford University Stanford University United States	259.8	34.3	74.8	56.3	54.9	84.5
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	252.1	68.2	82.1	86.4	84.6	0.0
14	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	242.0	55.6	96.6	60.7	77.7	0.0
15	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	234.6	33.8	66.0	78.1	65.7	53.5
16	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	233.8	46.0	77.3	83.3	93.9	0.0
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	233.1	78.4	73.5	62.3	68.8	0.0
18	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	233.0	30.9	67.0	91.3	63.4	53.5
19	Southeast University Southeast University China	231.2	68.4	93.2	60.2	57.6	0.0
20	Beihang University Beihang University China	229.3	84.0	74.1	50.8	61.1	0.0
21	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	223.9	31.5	62.2	66.4	41.4	75.6
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	223.9	73.4	74.7	61.9	63.4	0.0
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	216.4	27.9	62.0	80.7	44.9	65.5
24	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Australia	216.1	43.5	100.0	96.4	53.3	0.0
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	215.2	42.9	75.0	74.5	82.5	0.0
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	214.2	74.7	69.1	56.7	59.1	0.0
27	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	210.7	43.5	88.5	58.5	67.1	0.0
28	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	210.2	76.2	69.0	53.0	54.4	0.0
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	209.0	58.1	79.6	79.2	55.5	0.0
30	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	207.6	46.8	73.9	67.8	73.4	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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