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	Stanford University Stanford University	343.6	70.1
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	335.1	83.9
3	Harvard University Harvard University	334.8	73.1
4	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	309.4	77.8
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University	308.2	65.1
6	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	308.2	66.0
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	283.0	92.5
8	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	278.9	66.5
9	University of Alberta University of Alberta	275.6	62.9
10	Princeton University Princeton University	274.7	45.9
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	273.4	53.8
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	265.6	72.0
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	261.1	100.0
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	260.1	67.7
15	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	252.6	47.5
16	Peking University Peking University	246.1	83.8
17	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	245.2	95.9
18	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	244.8	55.3
19	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	244.8	60.4
20	Nanjing University Nanjing University	243.2	86.7
21	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	239.3	89.5
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	236.0	39.9
23	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	234.2	52.4
24	Stockholm University Stockholm University	230.2	66.4
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	226.4	70.9
26	University of Toronto University of Toronto	225.2	69.2
27	Duke University Duke University	224.3	63.2
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	224.0	85.3
29	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	220.1	65.5
30	Yale University Yale University	219.4	56.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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