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)	348.2	76.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	277.3	69.5
3	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	268.4	72.4
4	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	266.9	66.5
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	262.2	61.8
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	244.2	52.9
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	238.2	100.0
8	Harvard University Harvard University	227.7	58.7
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	220.1	87.2
10	Princeton University Princeton University	215.1	46.8
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	213.3	58.2
12	Cornell University Cornell University	212.8	44.2
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	212.2	58.2
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	206.4	84.6
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	205.3	77.4
16	University of Southern California University of Southern California	202.6	57.8
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	201.0	57.1
18	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	198.2	38.7
19	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	193.7	58.1
20	University College London University College London	192.6	55.6
21	Weizmann Institute of Science Weizmann Institute of Science	192.3	27.0
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	191.1	64.5
23	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	189.5	49.4
24	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	187.5	66.0
25	Columbia University Columbia University	186.5	51.1
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	186.0	59.3
27	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	184.3	53.9
28	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	183.9	79.3
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	183.2	54.0
30	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	183.0	35.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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