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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	385.5	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	297.9	76.3
3	Stanford University Stanford University	297.2	84.5
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	285.7	84.3
5	Columbia University Columbia University	279.9	80.9
6	Duke University Duke University	277.8	79.0
7	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	274.9	72.5
8	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	274.3	67.8
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	260.7	79.3
10	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	259.3	59.3
11	Princeton University Princeton University	256.0	52.7
12	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	254.7	65.6
13	University of Chicago University of Chicago	253.2	68.0
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	251.9	65.0
15	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	246.4	72.0
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	243.0	68.3
17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	239.4	87.9
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	220.2	78.0
19	University of Washington University of Washington	213.8	83.8
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	210.2	71.5
21	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	207.3	68.1
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	205.2	71.3
23	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	199.3	68.7
24	Yale University Yale University	194.9	64.0
25	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	191.1	61.3
26	University of Oxford University of Oxford	189.1	75.7
27	University of Warwick University of Warwick	189.0	73.7
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	187.9	50.4
29	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	184.8	61.0
30	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	182.5	62.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.