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	Harvard University Harvard University	356.3	100.0
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	280.0	56.0
3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	261.8	73.8
4	University of Washington University of Washington	260.0	50.1
5	Duke University Duke University	259.1	48.8
6	Rice University Rice University	257.1	34.0
7	Cornell University Cornell University	253.4	44.8
8	Fudan University Fudan University	248.1	50.2
9	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	237.4	39.5
10	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	233.6	67.0
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	233.4	61.5
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	227.5	35.3
13	Seoul National University Seoul National University	226.6	63.0
14	Stanford University Stanford University	225.9	67.0
15	Boston University Boston University	225.7	33.9
16	Soochow University Soochow University	222.7	41.2
17	Peking University Peking University	221.9	50.8
18	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	221.2	64.0
19	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	213.1	67.6
20	Sichuan University Sichuan University	211.2	55.0
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	210.6	65.6
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	207.6	59.1
23	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	205.9	52.8
24	University College London University College London	204.0	70.1
25	Northwestern University Northwestern University	203.0	58.7
26	Wake Forest University Wake Forest University	199.8	48.8
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto	199.0	64.5
28	Korea University Korea University	196.0	45.9
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	193.6	51.4
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	193.6	54.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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