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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Arizona University of Arizona	297.7	80.7
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	284.8	76.8
3	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	270.7	99.7
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	265.6	65.0
5	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	265.2	70.5
6	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	264.3	80.6
7	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	260.6	96.9
8	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	258.9	76.1
9	University of Bristol University of Bristol	258.3	59.8
10	Hohai University Hohai University	258.0	100.0
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	254.5	67.1
12	Flinders University Flinders University	250.9	61.5
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	248.9	84.9
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	247.6	58.1
15	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	244.4	44.9
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	241.0	60.4
17	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	239.7	82.4
18	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	237.0	61.4
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	235.0	60.4
20	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	234.9	76.5
21	Wuhan University Wuhan University	233.3	77.1
22	Colorado School of Mines Colorado School of Mines	226.5	50.9
23	Stanford University Stanford University	223.3	55.4
24	Oregon State University Oregon State University	223.2	60.6
25	University of Padua University of Padua	222.5	53.7
26	Utrecht University Utrecht University	222.3	56.7
27	Cornell University Cornell University	222.2	53.6
28	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	218.1	49.4
29	Colorado State University Colorado State University	218.0	68.8
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London	217.9	51.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.