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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	270.6	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	235.5	67.5
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	218.1	59.4
4	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	216.7	72.3
5	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	207.7	53.8
6	Boston University Boston University	189.8	35.4
7	University of Iceland University of Iceland	189.1	32.8
8	Xidian University Xidian University	183.3	59.6
9	University of Twente University of Twente	183.0	51.9
10	University of Lisbon University of Lisbon	178.3	31.3
11	University of Coimbra University of Coimbra	175.5	23.4
12	Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble	174.0	28.6
13	University of Valencia University of Valencia	173.1	38.5
14	University of Trento University of Trento	170.6	33.1
15	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	170.4	33.0
16	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	169.7	39.5
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	168.7	44.6
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	166.4	32.5
19	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	164.3	38.9
20	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	164.2	36.8
21	University of Zurich University of Zurich	163.9	31.2
22	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	163.9	30.8
23	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	162.9	39.8
24	University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston	162.9	23.8
25	Peking University Peking University	162.8	44.2
26	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	162.7	43.9
27	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	162.6	41.7
28	Nanjing University Nanjing University	161.9	48.7
29	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	160.7	38.3
30	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	156.9	36.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.