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.

99 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	249.2	71.8
2	Central South University Central South University	247.9	74.9
3	China University of Geosciences Beijing China University of Geosciences Beijing	246.8	59.5
4	China University of Mining and Technology - Xuzhou	228.5	73.1
5	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	221.7	47.4
6	University of Science and Technology Beijing	204.8	100.0
7	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	200.2	49.4
8	Nanjing University Nanjing University	195.3	32.7
9	McGill University McGill University	193.2	50.9
10	Monash University Monash University	188.0	35.3
11	China University of Mining & Technology-Beijing	187.4	44.7
12	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	183.8	46.8
13	Peking University Peking University	176.5	28.7
14	Curtin University Curtin University	176.3	41.8
15	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	175.6	32.0
16	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	170.1	61.8
17	University of Alberta University of Alberta	169.2	41.5
18	Kyushu University Kyushu University	168.2	30.4
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	166.3	28.2
20	Karadeniz Teknik University Karadeniz Teknik University	166.1	25.0
21	Imperial College London Imperial College London	165.2	31.2
22	University of South Australia University of South Australia	163.4	35.0
23	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	162.5	30.8
24	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	161.9	28.2
25	University of Toronto University of Toronto	160.4	29.5
26	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	159.8	33.1
27	Sichuan University Sichuan University	158.6	30.0
28	AGH University of Krakow AGH University of Krakow	157.8	85.5
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	157.2	40.0
30	University of Tehran University of Tehran	155.4	44.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.