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.

493 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	287.7	53.7
2	Stanford University Stanford University	263.5	42.6
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University	255.2	100.0
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	254.5	97.5
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	247.9	49.5
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	247.4	50.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	242.3	27.6
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	241.2	99.6
9	East China University of Science and Technology	240.8	93.0
10	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	238.9	79.1
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	237.8	46.7
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	232.0	31.1
13	Princeton University Princeton University	228.8	40.4
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	223.3	59.8
15	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	221.2	77.4
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	218.3	66.7
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	210.9	51.4
18	University of Delaware University of Delaware	209.2	32.3
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	203.8	38.7
20	University of Science and Technology of China	199.4	62.3
21	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	196.5	77.1
22	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	195.8	42.3
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	195.7	65.5
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London	195.6	64.6
25	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	190.7	41.8
26	Islamic Azad University Islamic Azad University	186.7	92.7
27	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	185.9	57.8
28	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing	185.4	82.0
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	185.3	39.4
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	183.9	53.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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