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.

476 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	262.2	98.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	216.3	100.0
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	193.5	62.0
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	191.1	63.3
5	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	187.1	56.0
6	University College London University College London	185.8	62.1
7	University of Washington University of Washington	185.1	66.3
8	Emory University Emory University	183.4	64.9
9	Columbia University Columbia University	183.0	58.8
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	180.2	69.6
11	University of Bristol University of Bristol	175.6	36.0
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	172.9	50.8
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	172.6	53.0
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London	172.5	49.5
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	170.5	58.8
16	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	167.5	64.5
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	164.0	37.1
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	160.7	49.8
19	Boston University Boston University	160.0	46.4
20	Utrecht University Utrecht University	159.6	44.5
21	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	158.4	57.0
22	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	158.1	50.6
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	156.7	41.4
24	Yale University Yale University	156.3	52.6
25	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	155.8	45.8
26	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	155.8	51.3
27	University of Crete University of Crete	155.0	15.9
28	Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University	150.5	24.1
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	149.8	33.2
30	Duke University Duke University	149.7	47.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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