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.

396 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	290.1	100.0
2	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	260.1	74.2
3	Columbia University Columbia University	250.9	71.5
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	238.2	76.1
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	235.9	65.1
6	The University of Reading The University of Reading	232.2	71.9
7	University of Washington University of Washington	228.8	68.5
8	Princeton University Princeton University	224.6	57.6
9	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	223.8	70.3
10	Colorado State University Colorado State University	223.6	71.6
11	Harvard University Harvard University	220.4	57.2
12	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	219.5	81.0
13	University of Leeds University of Leeds	216.7	57.2
14	Peking University Peking University	214.9	62.1
15	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	212.5	59.2
16	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	211.7	63.0
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	211.2	56.8
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	209.7	57.9
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	205.0	58.1
20	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	204.1	50.9
21	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	203.3	60.8
22	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	199.3	47.6
23	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	198.5	49.0
24	Stockholm University Stockholm University	196.4	52.3
25	University of East Anglia University of East Anglia	196.3	43.6
26	University of Exeter University of Exeter	194.6	41.6
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	194.2	49.7
28	University of Bern University of Bern	193.7	48.3
29	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	193.3	61.7
30	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	193.2	50.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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