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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	288.0	99.2	76.5	61.4	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	254.8	100.0	63.0	54.6	80.9
3	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	252.1	85.3	65.3	54.5	90.6
4	Beihang University Beihang University China	251.5	95.3	65.0	51.2	81.1
5	Jilin University Jilin University China	230.5	67.4	76.1	36.6	79.7
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	229.8	69.8	73.7	82.6	69.9
7	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	229.0	83.5	62.0	44.7	74.5
8	Southeast University Southeast University China	226.0	75.9	69.5	56.5	69.3
9	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	217.6	68.8	65.3	57.6	71.9
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	215.8	79.6	70.5	79.1	49.9
11	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	212.8	76.6	59.3	56.5	65.6
12	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	209.3	37.5	100.0	88.9	54.1
13	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	207.8	81.5	57.7	47.9	59.0
14	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	207.3	61.2	70.1	52.2	65.6
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	205.4	59.5	70.5	81.0	59.2
16	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	204.8	61.5	62.6	45.9	71.6
17	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	203.8	76.3	61.4	49.1	56.3
18	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia	202.8	37.8	100.0	100.0	45.0
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	202.8	74.2	68.6	81.7	43.7
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	202.1	63.2	79.2	81.9	43.4
21	Stanford University Stanford University United States	201.4	68.2	67.8	82.8	48.9
22	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	200.4	64.9	65.6	53.4	59.2
23	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	200.2	81.1	55.1	63.4	51.3
23	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	200.2	61.6	70.4	61.8	55.8
25	University of Science and Technology of China China	198.1	73.2	56.3	56.4	57.3
26	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	197.7	58.2	79.4	87.7	42.6
27	University of Malaya University of Malaya Malaysia	196.3	56.7	84.4	79.2	39.3
28	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	196.1	65.9	75.1	74.6	40.2
29	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	195.1	59.8	69.1	86.8	48.9
30	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	194.9	63.7	63.5	51.0	57.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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