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.

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Beihang University Beihang University	264.7	100.0
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	235.7	60.6
3	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	234.2	46.1
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	231.8	47.7
5	National University of Defense Technology	224.0	73.3
6	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	220.1	45.2
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	219.4	66.8
8	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	209.5	66.3
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	203.4	50.6
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	199.0	39.0
11	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	197.0	63.5
12	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	194.8	26.0
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	194.7	44.5
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	193.9	44.9
15	University of Toronto University of Toronto	192.2	30.0
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	190.8	29.3
17	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	190.4	43.6
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	189.9	25.5
19	Stanford University Stanford University	189.0	31.3
20	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	188.5	27.2
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	188.3	41.9
22	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	186.1	43.0
23	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	185.3	50.3
24	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	184.2	34.2
25	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	182.3	48.5
26	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	182.3	38.4
27	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	177.2	41.0
28	University of Southampton University of Southampton	176.6	31.5
29	University of Virginia University of Virginia	176.3	25.8
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	174.3	38.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.