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.

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	306.4	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	290.8	87.6
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	279.9	83.1
4	Stanford University Stanford University	274.2	73.5
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	273.8	81.4
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	268.5	93.6
7	Peking University Peking University	264.8	88.5
8	Harvard University Harvard University	262.7	73.0
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	259.3	85.0
10	University of Science and Technology of China	249.4	80.6
11	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	247.9	79.4
12	Seoul National University Seoul National University	246.6	85.4
13	Northwestern University Northwestern University	246.3	70.5
14	Rice University Rice University	244.5	57.2
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	242.2	61.6
16	Fudan University Fudan University	240.7	75.0
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	239.0	69.3
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	237.9	67.5
19	Soochow University Soochow University	236.9	72.3
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	235.2	77.2
21	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	232.3	83.6
22	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	228.2	61.7
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago	227.2	68.5
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	226.2	56.1
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	224.9	65.5
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	222.4	63.0
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	220.5	81.4
28	Jilin University Jilin University	215.5	79.4
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University	215.3	76.0
30	Pohang University of Science and Technology	214.7	68.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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