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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	291.4	100.0
2	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	233.9	93.3
3	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	219.6	65.1
4	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	213.9	77.3
5	University of Washington University of Washington	197.9	76.6
6	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	197.2	74.9
7	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	191.9	72.5
8	Northwestern University Northwestern University	190.6	66.5
9	University of Arizona University of Arizona	189.4	72.2
10	Columbia University Columbia University	188.2	59.6
11	University of Utah University of Utah	186.5	60.5
12	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	184.6	70.2
13	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	183.9	71.0
14	Stanford University Stanford University	183.5	57.1
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	183.0	80.3
16	University of Montreal University of Montreal	181.9	68.6
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	181.0	73.5
18	University of Wolverhampton University of Wolverhampton	180.2	65.9
19	Georgia State University Georgia State University	179.8	62.6
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	179.8	62.0
21	McGill University McGill University	179.0	66.5
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	177.4	78.3
23	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	177.2	64.8
24	KU Leuven KU Leuven	174.8	72.0
25	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	174.4	73.2
26	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	173.6	64.5
27	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	173.1	45.0
28	University of Granada University of Granada	172.6	77.8
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	171.2	66.5
30	Wuhan University Wuhan University	171.1	85.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.