2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	354.2	76.8
2	Stanford University Stanford University	349.7	61.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	340.7	72.0
4	Harvard University Harvard University	316.7	59.5
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	315.5	46.8
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University	302.5	62.6
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	280.9	69.7
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	276.6	66.1
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago	274.1	69.5
10	Kyoto University Kyoto University	271.7	86.6
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	268.7	59.3
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	265.6	84.0
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	263.0	62.8
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford	251.7	66.7
15	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	247.7	80.1
16	University of Science and Technology of China	247.5	85.5
17	Columbia University Columbia University	247.3	41.8
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	246.9	51.4
19	Peking University Peking University	244.1	87.2
20	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	242.4	50.1
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	240.8	93.5
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	234.7	60.5
23	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	233.4	49.2
24	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	232.9	45.8
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	231.2	74.0
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	230.8	41.9
27	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	229.5	99.1
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	228.3	56.2
29	Fudan University Fudan University	225.0	78.2
30	Rice University Rice University	223.1	41.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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