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.

502 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	324.0	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	302.3	57.1
3	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	282.0	56.3
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	281.3	62.4
5	Stanford University Stanford University	259.4	59.7
6	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	244.5	28.8
7	University of Washington University of Washington	237.4	63.0
8	Columbia University Columbia University	235.7	48.9
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	230.0	70.6
10	University College London University College London	225.3	62.5
11	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	222.0	39.4
12	Yale University Yale University	220.6	53.9
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	212.5	54.6
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	203.6	56.2
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	197.1	52.6
16	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	196.5	31.6
17	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	190.3	50.3
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich	188.9	47.1
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	182.6	26.7
20	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	179.6	60.5
21	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	175.6	46.9
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	175.1	43.4
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	174.4	66.3
24	Cornell University Cornell University	173.4	60.2
25	University of Oxford University of Oxford	173.2	64.5
26	Kyoto University Kyoto University	172.4	53.3
27	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	172.4	22.9
28	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	171.3	59.3
29	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	169.5	37.6
30	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	167.4	24.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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