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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	368.6	82.6
2	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	342.6	87.0
3	Columbia University Columbia University	336.0	72.8
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	332.6	78.8
5	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	307.6	61.6
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	278.2	96.0
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	261.6	65.1
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	250.6	79.0
9	Harvard University Harvard University	246.3	50.3
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	245.3	61.2
11	Utrecht University Utrecht University	243.7	81.0
12	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	240.9	56.6
13	University of Washington University of Washington	235.3	69.1
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	234.7	65.5
15	University of Bristol University of Bristol	232.6	75.8
16	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	232.0	84.6
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	230.8	73.3
18	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	228.3	79.1
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	227.3	83.0
20	University of Iowa University of Iowa	219.9	37.4
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	219.0	58.1
22	University of Leeds University of Leeds	218.6	64.9
23	The Australian National University The Australian National University	218.3	71.3
24	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	216.5	60.6
25	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	210.9	91.9
26	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	210.1	61.9
27	University College London University College London	209.9	64.9
28	Stanford University Stanford University	209.4	68.7
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London	208.8	64.3
30	University of Arizona University of Arizona	207.9	67.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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