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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	298.2	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	238.8	78.1
3	University College London University College London	228.9	72.9
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	222.0	60.1
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	213.0	60.2
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	210.6	65.9
7	Stanford University Stanford University	209.5	54.0
8	University of Oxford University of Oxford	208.8	57.4
9	Yale University Yale University	202.1	53.2
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	200.3	41.1
11	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	199.4	47.9
12	University of Washington University of Washington	199.3	55.3
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	198.6	53.9
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	198.3	56.4
15	Columbia University Columbia University	198.3	51.8
16	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	196.7	57.6
17	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	195.4	54.8
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London	190.1	49.2
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	189.9	51.9
20	King's College London King's College London	189.7	47.2
21	McGill University McGill University	189.7	51.3
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	189.6	46.7
23	Emory University Emory University	189.2	52.8
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University	187.1	58.1
25	New York University New York University	186.7	49.0
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	185.9	52.1
27	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	185.7	43.0
28	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin	185.4	51.8
29	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	183.2	50.8
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	183.2	45.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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