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.

201 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing	266.0	100.0
2	Central South University Central South University	232.6	98.1
3	Tohoku University Tohoku University	227.3	68.4
4	Pohang University of Science and Technology	221.1	51.1
5	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	219.2	80.3
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	218.7	34.3
7	Monash University Monash University	215.2	37.5
8	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	213.7	75.3
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	204.3	59.5
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	199.4	35.1
11	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	196.3	36.7
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	193.8	72.3
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	193.0	59.4
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	189.9	26.5
15	Northwestern University Northwestern University	189.3	27.4
16	RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University	187.7	37.6
17	University of Leoben University of Leoben	187.6	34.8
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	187.3	34.2
19	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	186.7	35.1
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	185.7	24.2
21	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	185.1	39.5
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford	182.5	28.5
23	Chongqing University Chongqing University	180.1	59.9
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	178.5	25.7
25	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	178.3	31.8
26	Beihang University Beihang University	177.2	50.4
27	University of Chicago University of Chicago	177.1	26.9
28	Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Science	176.2	34.6
29	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	175.5	23.8
30	Ruhr University Bochum Ruhr University Bochum	175.0	26.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.