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
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	272.7	56.2	100.0	82.5	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	256.0	58.0	83.1	74.2	100.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	253.5	100.0	76.7	57.7	65.2
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	253.2	52.7	92.2	73.3	93.6
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	251.8	47.2	100.0	84.3	87.7
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	246.5	65.7	76.6	72.6	89.7
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	230.2	60.3	75.3	68.8	80.9
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	228.9	51.3	79.2	71.0	84.1
9	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	227.0	64.5	82.4	51.6	69.8
10	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	226.9	70.6	81.5	51.5	64.5
11	Peking University Peking University China	225.9	55.1	81.9	56.5	77.6
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	225.7	58.5	82.6	58.4	72.9
13	University of Science and Technology of China China	223.4	79.0	75.5	50.8	58.7
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	218.7	58.9	76.5	77.5	67.8
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	216.9	39.9	100.0	80.4	61.0
16	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	216.5	27.6	100.0	80.4	72.9
17	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	216.3	67.2	69.5	75.6	64.5
18	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	215.0	81.6	77.6	48.4	46.1
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	214.9	73.1	74.7	49.8	57.2
20	Soochow University Soochow University China	213.8	39.2	97.4	59.9	65.2
21	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	213.6	37.9	84.9	54.9	79.8
22	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	212.2	55.8	70.1	52.4	75.8
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	209.8	47.0	79.5	77.1	67.8
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	209.3	74.1	73.6	54.8	50.7
25	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	209.1	39.8	88.3	89.3	63.1
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	207.6	56.7	85.3	74.1	50.7
27	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	205.4	74.4	75.4	52.4	45.1
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	203.9	31.4	87.3	70.5	71.0
29	Monash University Monash University Australia	203.6	41.5	82.7	81.3	63.1
30	University of Washington University of Washington United States	201.9	32.0	92.4	82.5	61.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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