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	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	271.7	78.3	78.6	74.1	100.0
2	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Germany	233.6	72.3	72.7	64.8	75.6
3	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	231.6	64.0	86.5	82.1	64.7
4	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	231.2	66.8	77.4	74.5	72.1
5	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Austria	230.1	70.9	75.0	82.7	67.8
6	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	229.4	100.0	73.8	58.0	44.0
7	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College United Kingdom	228.7	80.2	86.8	77.1	46.3
8	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain	222.3	55.4	81.8	79.4	69.3
9	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	219.4	51.7	87.7	84.3	63.1
10	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	218.5	75.1	78.9	75.2	49.5
11	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	217.1	42.8	92.0	80.2	66.2
12	Iowa State University Iowa State University United States	216.8	58.4	85.3	58.0	61.4
13	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid Spain	215.4	51.3	84.9	80.6	63.1
14	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	214.1	61.7	80.0	81.1	56.2
15	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	213.0	65.2	78.3	84.7	52.5
16	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	210.4	70.4	75.0	77.5	49.5
17	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	209.5	63.2	78.9	60.4	55.3
18	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	209.3	58.1	86.9	74.1	49.5
19	University of Hannover University of Hannover Germany	208.4	62.6	69.6	61.5	63.9
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	208.3	62.3	83.7	64.1	49.5
21	Cornell University Cornell University United States	206.6	71.4	75.9	65.3	46.3
22	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden	206.3	63.5	81.4	87.2	44.0
23	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool United Kingdom	205.7	61.0	82.3	75.5	47.4
24	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia United States	204.1	72.3	71.9	57.6	48.4
25	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	203.1	81.6	64.2	49.7	47.4
26	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	202.4	42.4	81.9	51.8	67.8
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	198.4	52.3	80.7	74.4	50.5
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	195.7	35.5	85.4	58.9	63.1
29	The University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow United Kingdom	195.0	50.1	80.2	76.0	49.5
30	Kansas State University Kansas State University United States	193.2	55.6	73.0	51.2	54.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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