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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	290.0	97.8
2	University of Oxford University of Oxford	280.7	97.4
3	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	278.8	100.0
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	271.0	90.4
5	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	267.7	93.8
6	University of Exeter University of Exeter	267.5	79.6
7	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	262.2	80.5
8	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	255.9	90.7
9	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	253.8	64.6
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	251.0	73.6
11	University of Florida University of Florida	249.0	92.4
12	James Cook University James Cook University	247.1	89.6
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	245.5	90.2
14	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	241.3	84.1
15	University of Zurich University of Zurich	240.4	71.4
16	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	239.8	96.0
17	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	238.3	86.3
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto	238.1	75.0
19	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	237.9	68.0
20	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	237.3	70.2
21	Cornell University Cornell University	236.4	85.2
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	236.1	74.2
23	Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3 Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3	236.0	68.1
24	Montpellier SupAgro Montpellier SupAgro	235.1	70.9
25	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	233.4	64.1
26	Stanford University Stanford University	231.9	69.2
27	Colorado State University Colorado State University	230.0	81.3
28	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	229.8	67.3
29	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	228.6	82.6
30	University of Washington University of Washington	228.6	81.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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