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	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	284.1	88.9
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	272.9	80.1
3	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	266.0	100.0
4	Southeast University Southeast University	249.5	78.4
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	243.0	81.5
6	University of Sydney University of Sydney	235.2	75.4
7	University of Leeds University of Leeds	235.1	72.9
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	234.4	66.3
9	Tongji University Tongji University	231.3	79.7
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	230.6	71.3
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	228.9	60.6
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	227.3	59.4
13	Monash University Monash University	226.9	74.7
14	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	226.4	51.8
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	224.9	70.2
16	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	222.7	69.0
17	University of Southampton University of Southampton	222.3	60.9
18	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	218.9	66.8
19	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	218.4	55.8
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	214.3	67.2
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	212.1	72.2
22	McGill University McGill University	210.8	60.0
23	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	210.3	65.1
24	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	208.9	48.7
25	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	208.7	65.8
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	208.1	71.1
27	Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology	208.0	59.3
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	207.4	67.3
29	University College London University College London	206.2	65.0
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	204.7	42.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.