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.

301 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	289.0	97.3
2	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	284.5	100.0
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	264.8	91.9
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	254.0	74.3
5	Ghent University Ghent University	243.1	74.7
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	242.8	76.7
7	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	242.0	82.1
8	University of Campinas University of Campinas	242.0	81.0
9	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst	240.1	56.0
10	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	235.8	77.0
11	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	233.5	70.0
12	University of Porto University of Porto	231.3	67.7
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	229.5	68.3
14	University of Guelph University of Guelph	228.8	70.5
15	KU Leuven KU Leuven	227.2	62.7
16	University College Dublin University College Dublin	221.9	58.4
17	Nanchang University Nanchang University	219.8	57.6
18	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	219.4	69.2
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	213.4	55.2
20	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	211.6	58.3
21	Cornell University Cornell University	211.3	70.5
22	Aarhus University Aarhus University	210.7	61.2
23	University of Bologna University of Bologna	210.4	61.1
24	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	209.0	46.0
25	University of Valencia University of Valencia	208.6	54.1
26	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia	207.8	58.5
27	University Putra Malaysia University Putra Malaysia	206.0	79.2
28	China Medical University (Taichung) China Medical University (Taichung)	204.0	53.7
29	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	203.1	56.8
30	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	202.9	59.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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