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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	311.0	95.3	100.0	78.5	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	261.7	69.5	100.0	76.6	76.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	246.7	67.9	96.4	70.6	68.2
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	244.0	100.0	64.5	52.7	68.9
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	242.1	66.1	100.0	71.1	61.8
6	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	234.2	71.4	85.6	82.3	60.6
7	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	233.5	62.1	95.6	83.2	59.1
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	231.6	68.7	79.8	58.9	71.4
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	228.2	65.2	91.9	81.3	54.8
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	228.1	68.6	88.5	85.6	53.8
11	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	227.5	58.9	100.0	73.0	54.0
12	Cornell University Cornell University United States	226.9	69.4	89.8	69.7	53.8
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	226.4	61.4	94.4	75.9	55.4
14	University College London University College London United Kingdom	224.4	62.5	85.0	83.9	60.1
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	223.9	83.0	73.6	51.1	57.1
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	221.6	57.8	92.8	85.1	54.0
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	221.1	70.2	71.4	78.7	63.8
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	220.4	64.1	81.0	80.4	59.2
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	219.3	67.8	82.1	66.7	56.1
20	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	218.9	69.3	73.1	65.0	63.4
21	University of Washington University of Washington United States	218.4	58.1	90.2	68.0	56.5
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	216.4	85.2	62.7	53.9	57.7
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	216.4	60.9	83.5	62.8	59.5
24	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	216.0	69.9	73.6	82.6	56.0
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	216.0	57.1	88.6	71.7	56.0
26	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	213.7	68.7	78.4	82.8	50.1
27	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	213.1	90.3	60.6	48.6	52.5
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	212.8	63.7	81.8	74.3	52.5
29	Shandong University Shandong University China	211.7	74.3	68.1	47.6	59.9
30	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	211.4	69.5	79.0	70.3	48.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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