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	New York University New York University	287.1	100.0
2	University of Chicago University of Chicago	280.6	83.6
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	279.5	93.5
4	Harvard University Harvard University	276.3	93.3
5	Columbia University Columbia University	264.8	95.5
6	London School of Economics and Political Science	246.6	94.4
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	243.1	84.7
8	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	242.0	91.8
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	235.9	83.2
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	234.8	88.8
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	234.2	88.6
12	Tilburg University Tilburg University	229.3	84.7
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	222.3	75.3
14	London Business School London Business School	220.9	63.2
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	219.8	71.1
16	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	218.4	91.3
17	Duke University Duke University	216.1	64.0
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	215.5	65.8
19	Stanford University Stanford University	215.0	69.6
20	City, University of London City, University of London	214.5	85.3
21	University of Washington University of Washington	212.5	64.3
22	University of Southern California University of Southern California	212.4	65.1
23	Cornell University Cornell University	211.6	82.2
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University	210.4	66.4
25	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	210.2	78.6
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	210.2	72.3
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	202.2	84.9
28	Boston College Boston College	198.7	63.5
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	197.7	67.1
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	197.7	81.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.