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	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	288.9	100.0	77.2	58.7	100.0
2	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	278.9	91.6	77.3	72.4	95.6
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	266.0	87.7	77.5	52.9	90.2
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	259.4	73.7	90.7	54.4	84.1
5	University of Campinas University of Campinas Brazil	243.1	78.1	77.4	47.9	78.0
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	242.2	74.7	79.8	53.1	77.2
7	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	239.6	69.7	79.2	74.3	75.9
8	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	239.1	78.1	74.0	57.6	75.5
9	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst United States	238.1	53.8	100.0	86.1	67.1
10	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	234.9	69.9	81.0	51.1	73.8
11	University of Porto University of Porto Portugal	226.1	64.6	74.7	67.0	73.4
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	224.5	70.8	71.9	77.3	66.4
13	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	222.8	67.7	77.1	59.8	66.1
14	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	222.1	60.4	77.2	67.4	71.0
15	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	222.0	64.8	73.0	80.8	68.0
16	Nanchang University Nanchang University China	221.7	57.3	89.8	61.7	62.3
17	University College Dublin University College Dublin Ireland	220.7	55.3	92.5	75.7	57.7
18	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	220.2	66.7	81.3	71.9	57.8
19	Cornell University Cornell University United States	213.1	67.8	77.3	72.2	53.6
20	University of Bologna University of Bologna Italy	208.5	58.3	73.8	70.1	62.4
21	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	208.4	52.2	82.6	63.3	61.0
22	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia	207.8	44.3	93.5	100.0	50.0
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	205.8	52.8	80.1	78.5	57.1
24	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	204.9	55.3	77.8	63.6	59.1
25	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	203.8	51.6	75.5	81.6	60.3
26	University of Parma University of Parma Italy	201.0	54.5	77.5	59.1	57.2
27	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain	200.9	54.9	75.7	57.8	58.8
28	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University China	199.4	55.3	75.8	47.4	58.8
28	University of Milan University of Milan Italy	199.4	60.5	69.3	62.6	57.1
30	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	198.0	55.8	77.8	74.0	49.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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