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	Tongji University Tongji University	316.9	100.0
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	242.9	59.0
3	Lehigh University Lehigh University	236.7	35.1
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	236.7	59.6
5	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	225.7	56.8
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	217.0	82.3
7	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	208.9	51.0
8	University of Canterbury University of Canterbury	208.9	34.1
9	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	199.6	63.2
10	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	196.0	60.3
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	192.1	65.9
12	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	190.0	39.5
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	188.1	36.8
14	Western University Western University	187.8	38.3
15	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	184.6	55.0
16	Southeast University Southeast University	179.1	74.2
17	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	176.2	60.6
18	Colorado State University Colorado State University	170.8	40.5
19	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	170.2	51.3
20	University of Stuttgart University of Stuttgart	169.1	33.8
21	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	167.6	51.8
22	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	167.4	43.3
23	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	166.1	70.7
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	166.0	69.7
25	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	165.5	50.6
26	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	165.1	71.2
27	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	164.2	55.4
28	University of Toronto University of Toronto	163.5	47.1
29	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	163.4	73.0
30	McMaster University McMaster University	162.7	34.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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