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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	343.0	61.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	321.7	49.7
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	313.8	55.2
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	275.9	65.9
5	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	274.1	52.3
6	Princeton University Princeton University	245.3	37.5
7	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	222.1	37.3
8	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	219.3	28.0
9	Harvard University Harvard University	213.9	33.3
10	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	213.1	36.6
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	211.2	46.6
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	209.8	85.1
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	207.3	53.7
14	Aalborg University Aalborg University	207.1	49.0
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	204.2	50.8
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	203.7	49.2
17	Lund University Lund University	203.3	31.2
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	202.9	45.6
19	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	202.4	41.6
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	200.8	50.3
21	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	199.6	45.6
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	198.9	100.0
23	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	198.4	93.5
24	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	196.2	52.5
25	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	194.7	78.1
26	New York University New York University	193.7	29.8
27	Columbia University Columbia University	192.3	33.9
28	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	191.9	72.9
29	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	191.2	51.7
30	University College London University College London	190.6	40.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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