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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Ghent University Ghent University	271.6	79.2
2	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	231.7	100.0
3	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	229.5	64.9
4	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College	226.8	78.7
5	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	225.6	66.0
6	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	225.2	71.0
7	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover	224.3	72.5
8	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	222.5	53.8
9	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	221.7	55.4
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University	216.3	67.6
11	Iowa State University Iowa State University	215.8	58.2
12	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid	215.4	51.4
13	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	212.5	40.9
14	University of Guelph University of Guelph	211.5	74.2
15	University of Zurich University of Zurich	211.1	70.5
16	Cornell University Cornell University	208.6	71.8
17	University of Bern University of Bern	206.5	60.5
18	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	204.4	65.1
19	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	203.6	62.8
20	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool	202.1	60.1
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	200.7	55.7
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	200.3	60.4
23	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	199.6	72.0
24	University of Hannover University of Hannover	198.8	62.1
25	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	198.1	81.5
26	Norwegian University of Life Sciences Norwegian University of Life Sciences	196.6	48.0
27	Colorado State University Colorado State University	192.0	80.0
28	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	189.0	70.0
29	The University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow	188.7	49.4
30	University of Florida University of Florida	188.3	71.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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