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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	304.7	96.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	264.7	72.6
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	231.9	68.6
4	Stanford University Stanford University	222.5	69.3
5	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	222.1	100.0
6	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	216.8	65.6
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	206.8	66.0
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	205.8	62.0
9	Cornell University Cornell University	204.1	70.3
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	202.1	70.2
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	200.8	71.1
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	200.7	67.1
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	199.2	59.8
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	198.6	66.6
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University	196.9	83.8
16	University of Washington University of Washington	196.8	61.3
17	University College London University College London	195.5	65.1
18	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	194.9	67.3
19	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	194.5	69.1
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	194.3	67.6
21	Ghent University Ghent University	194.1	69.8
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	193.0	60.6
23	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	191.3	69.7
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	190.0	57.3
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	189.9	81.9
26	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	189.1	68.2
27	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	188.8	86.6
28	Shandong University Shandong University	187.2	72.6
29	University of Florida University of Florida	186.8	68.8
30	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	186.7	56.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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