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	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	354.0	62.6
2	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	307.0	54.1
3	University of Washington University of Washington	304.1	56.1
4	Harvard University Harvard University	290.6	69.9
5	King's College London King's College London	290.2	62.0
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	277.0	42.4
7	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	276.8	41.2
8	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	274.1	46.3
9	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	265.3	100.0
10	University of Florida University of Florida	262.2	46.1
11	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	256.5	35.2
12	University of Southern California University of Southern California	256.4	42.3
13	New York University New York University	247.3	60.2
14	KU Leuven KU Leuven	245.7	39.5
15	University College London University College London	245.4	52.9
16	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	243.6	39.5
17	University of Bern University of Bern	242.8	65.2
18	Osaka University Osaka University	241.1	42.2
19	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	236.8	36.7
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	235.9	46.3
21	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	235.4	59.9
22	University of Birmingham University of Birmingham	234.9	38.7
23	University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham	233.2	38.4
24	University of Turku University of Turku	231.5	39.5
25	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	231.2	46.0
26	University of Zurich University of Zurich	231.1	63.7
27	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	226.3	43.8
28	Augusta University Augusta University	225.7	43.1
29	University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland, Baltimore	225.4	40.1
30	Tokyo Medical and Dental University Tokyo Medical and Dental University	220.6	57.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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