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)	370.9	71.1
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	362.2	67.0
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	328.9	62.7
4	Stanford University Stanford University	324.7	56.8
5	Harvard University Harvard University	316.8	53.2
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University	311.0	60.8
7	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	291.9	56.4
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	289.6	71.7
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	269.3	46.8
10	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	257.7	59.9
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	249.2	52.2
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	248.1	56.6
13	Imperial College London Imperial College London	241.1	59.2
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	236.5	100.0
15	Cornell University Cornell University	234.8	41.6
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	233.3	56.5
17	Princeton University Princeton University	230.7	34.7
18	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	219.7	52.5
19	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	219.2	82.2
20	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	219.0	44.2
21	University of Chicago University of Chicago	217.0	61.0
22	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	215.4	41.6
23	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	213.4	37.8
24	Tohoku University Tohoku University	209.3	76.3
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	209.3	72.6
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	204.7	58.5
27	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	204.3	64.0
28	University of California, Riverside University of California, Riverside	201.8	31.4
29	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	200.7	45.1
30	University of Science and Technology of China	199.6	74.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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