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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	294.3	100.0
2	University of Toronto University of Toronto	245.0	88.9
3	University College London University College London	237.5	83.0
4	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	236.8	78.3
5	Stanford University Stanford University	235.3	67.1
6	New York University New York University	234.3	73.2
7	Columbia University Columbia University	231.3	77.1
8	Yale University Yale University	228.5	75.5
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	223.9	77.0
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	222.8	70.8
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University	222.3	69.7
12	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	213.7	72.4
13	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	210.4	64.5
14	Duke University Duke University	209.8	63.1
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	202.6	65.8
16	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	199.4	67.9
17	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	197.8	66.5
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	196.7	56.3
19	King's College London King's College London	195.2	69.9
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	194.9	60.5
21	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	193.3	64.9
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	193.2	63.9
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago	193.1	52.8
24	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	192.4	65.8
25	Utrecht University Utrecht University	191.6	67.5
26	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	189.7	65.2
27	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	187.9	74.2
28	Cornell University Cornell University	187.7	54.3
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	187.2	73.0
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	184.2	61.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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