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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	378.7	90.9
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	356.2	92.6
3	Stanford University Stanford University	355.0	80.6
4	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	354.8	100.0
5	Princeton University Princeton University	345.4	78.2
6	University of Chicago University of Chicago	341.1	83.3
7	Harvard University Harvard University	336.7	89.1
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	307.0	85.7
9	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	305.5	67.0
10	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	298.7	80.0
11	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	298.0	59.3
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	297.6	60.6
13	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	294.2	59.3
14	University of Washington University of Washington	282.8	56.7
15	Cornell University Cornell University	271.6	54.6
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	265.6	62.3
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	255.1	88.5
18	Nagoya University Nagoya University	254.8	62.9
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	253.6	78.0
20	Columbia University Columbia University	250.5	55.8
21	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	244.9	41.9
22	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	242.9	51.6
23	University of Munich University of Munich	242.1	56.3
24	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	240.5	72.6
25	Kyoto University Kyoto University	239.5	76.9
26	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	239.3	81.1
27	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	238.5	67.7
28	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	237.8	73.2
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	235.4	67.2
30	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	235.1	78.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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