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.

194 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	305.4	51.1
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	287.7	60.3
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	278.2	53.5
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	264.2	100.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	263.4	49.9
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London	262.0	48.9
7	University of Toronto University of Toronto	258.5	44.6
8	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	252.4	47.7
9	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	250.3	37.2
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	244.8	54.4
11	Stanford University Stanford University	240.4	37.0
12	Harvard University Harvard University	237.4	34.2
13	The Australian National University The Australian National University	228.2	34.8
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	223.8	67.3
15	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	215.0	47.3
16	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	214.8	32.6
17	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	212.6	56.0
18	University of Groningen University of Groningen	212.4	32.6
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	209.5	79.6
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	209.1	29.6
21	Southeast University Southeast University	202.0	69.3
22	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	201.4	52.6
23	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	201.2	76.6
24	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	200.4	29.6
25	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	199.8	40.9
26	Beihang University Beihang University	198.0	83.3
27	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	197.1	43.6
28	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	192.1	61.2
29	New York University New York University	191.4	30.2
30	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	189.1	32.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.