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	381.4	70.8	99.3	77.8	100.0	95.7
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	364.7	67.9	95.2	78.3	86.0	100.0
3	Harvard University Harvard University United States	352.0	55.1	99.9	81.4	91.8	89.0
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	350.7	68.4	95.3	78.2	87.2	84.2
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	337.5	64.8	85.8	87.9	80.4	89.0
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	333.1	60.6	100.0	77.7	92.4	64.5
7	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	324.1	59.3	92.2	72.7	69.9	88.2
8	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	304.8	58.8	81.4	68.7	64.3	86.6
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	299.3	47.8	100.0	76.4	59.9	76.4
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	295.6	80.6	99.5	84.7	98.6	0.0
11	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	290.6	100.0	83.9	57.2	95.3	0.0
12	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	281.4	60.4	85.9	74.1	55.7	64.5
13	Peking University Peking University China	271.5	75.7	91.0	59.5	93.0	0.0
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	263.5	59.7	82.8	83.7	63.4	40.8
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	258.7	57.6	83.5	69.6	56.6	47.1
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	257.2	55.2	97.1	85.3	59.0	28.9
17	University of Science and Technology of China China	256.0	77.3	90.7	55.3	77.0	0.0
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	250.7	72.0	89.1	81.4	73.4	0.0
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	247.6	80.3	83.1	59.8	72.2	0.0
20	Soochow University Soochow University China	246.9	69.9	91.9	58.6	73.4	0.0
21	Fudan University Fudan University China	246.0	65.4	94.2	57.3	74.8	0.0
22	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	243.1	45.6	88.1	70.7	66.3	28.9
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	242.5	84.1	80.0	58.1	66.8	0.0
24	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	241.9	73.4	76.4	54.9	81.1	0.0
25	Princeton University Princeton University United States	241.4	39.5	84.3	73.6	38.3	64.5
26	Cornell University Cornell University United States	238.3	42.0	90.5	67.8	46.6	45.6
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	238.3	59.5	98.7	87.5	62.6	0.0
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	238.2	53.0	93.1	68.9	49.5	28.9
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	236.9	46.3	83.7	73.2	46.6	45.6
30	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	236.2	64.9	80.9	55.1	79.4	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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