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	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	273.7	56.7
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	255.7	49.3
3	Stanford University Stanford University	252.5	55.4
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	250.3	61.5
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	249.7	71.9
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	242.0	100.0
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	229.3	63.6
8	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	226.3	68.9
9	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	222.3	53.2
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	221.7	60.9
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University	216.4	29.1
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	214.4	60.0
13	University of Science and Technology of China	214.3	78.2
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	213.2	67.8
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University	211.1	60.0
16	Peking University Peking University	211.1	56.2
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	208.5	41.3
18	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	207.4	38.7
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	207.2	33.6
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	207.2	75.2
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	206.4	50.3
22	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	204.9	63.8
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	202.0	74.6
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	201.8	58.3
25	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University	199.6	80.2
26	University of Washington University of Washington	199.3	33.0
27	Fudan University Fudan University	197.5	46.5
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	197.3	70.9
29	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	195.3	59.2
30	Monash University Monash University	194.4	42.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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