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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	New York University New York University United States	299.0	100.0	90.4	65.3	97.3
2	Harvard University Harvard University United States	280.0	88.2	88.3	62.7	97.3
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	279.5	84.9	99.7	64.4	95.9
4	Columbia University Columbia University United States	277.2	93.2	83.1	63.4	89.4
5	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	273.6	78.7	100.0	54.6	100.0
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	257.1	82.1	86.1	52.3	85.6
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	250.3	84.0	78.9	66.2	78.3
8	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom	245.9	91.3	71.4	80.1	65.3
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	243.5	83.8	75.4	88.9	71.2
10	Stanford University Stanford University United States	233.5	69.7	95.7	61.7	74.8
11	University of Washington University of Washington United States	231.4	65.5	96.1	60.1	79.2
12	Tilburg University Tilburg University Netherlands	230.0	76.4	94.8	91.4	58.9
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	229.7	81.8	77.1	84.5	60.0
14	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	229.2	64.3	100.0	61.2	76.6
15	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	228.5	74.2	86.6	56.4	68.3
16	Cornell University Cornell University United States	224.6	78.4	75.4	61.0	63.2
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	224.0	72.7	79.0	61.2	69.3
18	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	223.7	86.1	75.9	76.2	49.0
19	London Business School London Business School United Kingdom	220.4	56.2	100.0	95.1	76.6
20	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	220.1	61.6	93.5	60.2	74.8
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	219.5	68.2	88.4	57.0	67.3
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	218.6	62.1	89.6	58.3	74.8
23	Duke University Duke University United States	217.8	58.3	100.0	45.5	75.7
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	217.8	61.1	87.4	49.3	77.5
25	City, University of London City, University of London United Kingdom	215.2	80.7	63.6	82.6	54.2
26	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	214.8	73.6	72.3	72.2	61.1
27	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	206.1	64.8	78.4	54.5	64.3
28	Boston College Boston College United States	206.0	57.6	94.8	59.6	66.3
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	205.0	64.5	81.9	61.6	61.1
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	203.0	76.0	68.7	85.0	46.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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