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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	279.7	86.1	80.2	67.3	100.0
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China	256.0	100.0	65.1	60.3	78.9
3	Xidian University Xidian University China	250.8	93.1	63.3	55.0	83.3
4	Southeast University Southeast University China	247.8	77.6	76.4	63.4	81.1
5	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	247.5	87.6	66.2	62.1	81.2
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	246.3	65.4	83.1	84.8	80.9
7	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	236.1	50.4	100.0	79.3	69.9
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	234.1	50.4	97.1	84.8	69.6
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	227.9	59.7	81.5	74.7	71.7
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	227.1	69.2	68.4	64.8	76.5
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	223.8	51.2	85.5	87.0	69.8
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	215.3	57.5	78.8	72.0	64.6
13	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	214.6	45.8	87.5	78.5	65.6
14	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec France	213.7	44.4	96.1	84.1	56.4
15	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	213.6	52.0	80.2	61.0	69.2
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	210.1	48.6	82.6	75.5	63.8
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	209.0	40.0	100.0	69.1	55.1
18	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	208.7	44.7	87.2	69.9	62.8
19	Singapore University of Technology & Design Singapore	205.7	35.9	98.5	94.9	52.3
20	University of Houston University of Houston United States	203.7	36.9	95.0	93.1	53.2
21	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	200.9	49.5	74.6	85.8	59.7
22	Aalto University Aalto University Finland	198.8	47.1	78.0	80.3	57.6
23	Peking University Peking University China	196.2	45.6	80.6	74.3	55.1
24	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	194.3	59.6	64.9	72.6	55.3
25	University of Science and Technology of China China	193.5	49.4	72.8	65.1	58.3
26	Princeton University Princeton University United States	192.8	32.5	100.0	91.2	42.0
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	192.6	56.3	66.1	54.7	59.3
28	Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast United Kingdom	191.2	32.2	100.0	84.7	42.0
29	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	190.7	38.1	86.0	81.6	50.3
30	University College London University College London United Kingdom	190.4	40.8	84.3	82.1	48.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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