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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	275.4	98.2
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	259.4	100.0
3	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	243.2	85.9
4	Beihang University Beihang University	240.9	92.5
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	232.2	72.9
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	227.9	85.4
7	Southeast University Southeast University	225.7	76.0
8	Jilin University Jilin University	213.0	65.7
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	208.8	77.2
10	Tianjin University Tianjin University	207.8	75.7
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	206.5	83.4
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago	204.0	85.1
13	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University	203.7	78.5
14	Aalborg University Aalborg University	202.7	36.7
15	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	201.6	67.2
16	University of Malaya University of Malaya	198.4	60.1
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	197.6	61.6
18	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	197.2	85.6
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	197.1	67.5
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	196.4	67.2
21	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	193.5	59.1
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	193.2	66.8
23	Stanford University Stanford University	193.1	70.5
24	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	192.7	58.6
25	Chongqing University Chongqing University	191.3	63.9
26	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	189.8	64.9
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	189.4	74.0
28	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia	189.3	51.4
29	University of Alberta University of Alberta	188.0	56.8
30	University of Science and Technology of China	187.3	72.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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