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.

199 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Washington University of Washington	280.5	76.9
2	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	268.7	72.6
3	Oregon State University Oregon State University	241.8	63.8
4	University of Southampton University of Southampton	237.4	62.3
5	Utrecht University Utrecht University	220.4	63.7
6	Ocean University of China Ocean University of China	218.8	100.0
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	218.1	50.4
8	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	216.7	52.2
9	Columbia University Columbia University	214.7	46.7
10	University of Bergen University of Bergen	214.2	53.1
11	University of Miami University of Miami	212.9	54.4
12	Universite de Brest Universite de Brest	209.9	52.6
13	University of Tasmania University of Tasmania	206.1	55.5
14	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	205.3	44.3
15	University of Bremen University of Bremen	203.0	50.3
16	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	202.2	49.2
17	Stanford University Stanford University	199.7	39.5
18	University of Hamburg University of Hamburg	199.0	50.0
19	University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz	198.1	46.2
20	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	197.9	37.7
21	Princeton University Princeton University	197.7	36.6
22	University of Alaska - Fairbanks University of Alaska - Fairbanks	196.4	45.5
23	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	195.8	47.9
24	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	189.8	51.5
25	University of Delaware University of Delaware	188.8	41.1
26	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	188.2	33.5
27	Florida State University Florida State University	187.8	43.0
28	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	186.2	37.2
29	University of Rhode Island University of Rhode Island	186.0	43.8
30	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	185.3	40.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.