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	329.5	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	286.4	56.7
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	279.3	74.5
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	275.4	38.1
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	259.7	59.3
6	University of Washington University of Washington	255.2	53.1
7	University College London University College London	254.0	62.3
8	University of Oxford University of Oxford	243.5	44.6
9	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	242.3	55.9
10	Columbia University Columbia University	235.6	52.8
11	Stanford University Stanford University	233.5	51.7
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London	228.9	46.3
13	Duke University Duke University	227.5	52.4
14	Emory University Emory University	226.4	48.1
15	University of Toronto University of Toronto	216.7	70.4
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	213.5	22.6
17	Yale University Yale University	211.7	47.7
18	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	211.6	10.5
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	211.2	47.5
20	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	211.2	53.1
21	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	210.7	53.8
22	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	206.2	47.3
23	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	204.2	38.0
24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	200.8	44.3
25	King's College London King's College London	198.1	46.5
26	University of Utah University of Utah	198.1	37.6
27	Oregon Health and Science University Oregon Health and Science University	196.6	35.8
28	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	188.6	43.5
29	Aarhus University Aarhus University	187.7	38.2
30	University of Virginia University of Virginia	187.2	31.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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