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	274.4	100.0
2	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	245.9	65.2
3	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	215.1	68.3
4	University of Oxford University of Oxford	209.5	56.3
5	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	205.3	80.2
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London	204.4	59.4
7	University College London University College London	200.3	74.2
8	The University of Dundee The University of Dundee	194.9	33.0
9	Monash University Monash University	192.1	65.7
10	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	189.0	37.4
11	King's College London King's College London	188.2	60.6
12	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	184.0	53.0
13	University of Milan University of Milan	183.7	65.0
14	Stanford University Stanford University	182.4	52.0
15	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	180.7	58.2
16	Leiden University Leiden University	180.0	53.2
17	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	177.8	52.9
18	University of Tuebingen University of Tuebingen	176.6	48.7
19	University of Marburg University of Marburg	176.6	34.1
20	University of Bristol University of Bristol	176.4	32.8
21	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	176.3	59.1
22	Yale University Yale University	176.0	54.6
23	McGill University McGill University	174.9	55.1
24	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	174.8	50.2
25	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	174.5	50.7
26	University of Hamburg University of Hamburg	173.3	36.9
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	171.0	40.1
28	University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5) University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5)	169.3	52.6
29	University of Lausanne University of Lausanne	168.4	44.6
30	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	168.4	61.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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