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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	310.8	98.8	95.0	84.9	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	286.7	85.6	87.5	78.3	98.1
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	286.3	100.0	85.7	60.7	88.5
4	Peking University Peking University China	281.7	92.5	86.7	60.6	90.5
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	280.2	82.5	91.8	82.1	89.5
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	276.7	75.2	96.1	75.5	90.3
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	272.8	79.8	86.6	77.2	90.9
8	University of Science and Technology of China China	266.7	87.0	91.9	58.8	76.1
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	266.0	84.7	82.8	80.7	82.3
10	Harvard University Harvard University United States	265.4	73.9	88.0	82.0	87.1
11	Soochow University Soochow University China	259.6	80.6	91.1	61.7	75.6
12	Fudan University Fudan University China	250.8	78.7	90.0	57.7	70.6
13	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	248.8	80.2	76.2	54.2	81.6
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	248.8	81.9	83.3	67.4	70.1
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	247.6	86.6	72.4	53.7	77.8
16	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	246.8	70.3	81.4	70.4	81.1
17	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	243.7	61.0	94.4	77.1	72.9
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	242.9	70.7	80.1	91.3	73.9
19	Rice University Rice University United States	240.9	57.4	98.2	76.0	70.1
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	240.8	67.5	87.5	87.9	68.2
21	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	238.7	85.4	71.7	53.0	71.0
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	235.1	71.6	78.1	71.0	71.2
23	Jilin University Jilin University China	231.5	84.2	78.5	56.1	57.6
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	231.3	57.5	96.5	86.2	60.1
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	231.0	84.2	76.8	60.8	57.8
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	230.5	73.7	87.7	60.4	56.9
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	230.1	64.5	81.2	83.2	67.8
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	228.3	60.7	90.3	68.9	63.5
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	228.2	80.6	78.8	56.8	57.4
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	223.8	65.5	74.9	70.0	69.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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