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.

201 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford	296.0	100.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University	278.4	80.7
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	267.1	84.5
4	Durham University Durham University	254.7	74.2
5	Stockholm University Stockholm University	253.3	65.6
6	University College London University College London	248.0	79.3
7	The Australian National University The Australian National University	246.0	79.4
8	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	245.9	72.4
9	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	242.1	65.1
10	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	241.5	58.1
11	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	239.4	64.1
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	238.9	67.3
13	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	233.9	68.8
14	University of Washington University of Washington	232.7	60.0
15	University of Exeter University of Exeter	230.1	63.2
16	University of Leeds University of Leeds	230.0	68.0
17	Columbia University Columbia University	229.9	61.9
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	227.4	60.1
19	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	227.2	67.5
20	University of Bern University of Bern	227.2	65.0
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	225.7	72.8
22	University of Southampton University of Southampton	225.6	63.5
23	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	225.6	70.6
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich	225.0	57.1
25	Lund University Lund University	222.9	59.6
26	Wuhan University Wuhan University	222.7	69.3
27	Arizona State University Arizona State University	222.4	60.7
28	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	222.4	59.7
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	222.0	64.0
30	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	219.9	64.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.