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	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	294.4	100.0
2	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	253.3	84.4
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	252.8	90.9
4	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	245.1	82.6
5	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	244.6	87.5
6	University of Florida University of Florida	234.7	87.1
7	Cornell University Cornell University	234.6	73.3
8	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	231.1	84.6
9	Ghent University Ghent University	227.1	69.3
10	Aarhus University Aarhus University	226.9	68.7
11	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	226.1	99.1
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	225.1	68.3
13	Michigan State University Michigan State University	222.0	68.7
14	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	219.9	66.7
15	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	219.3	72.7
16	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	218.9	65.3
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	218.2	71.1
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	218.1	66.4
19	AgroParisTech AgroParisTech	215.5	62.8
20	Iowa State University Iowa State University	211.8	65.1
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	209.7	63.8
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	207.9	61.6
23	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	205.6	61.5
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	205.0	62.9
25	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	203.9	69.4
26	University of Guelph University of Guelph	203.3	63.9
27	Oregon State University Oregon State University	201.0	65.8
28	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	200.0	59.4
29	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	198.7	50.6
30	Washington State University Washington State University	198.1	61.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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