2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	378.7	90.9	72.2	77.9	100.0	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	356.2	92.6	73.5	80.9	91.4	82.6
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	355.0	80.6	78.1	79.0	81.6	98.9
4	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	354.8	100.0	58.9	70.8	95.2	86.6
5	Princeton University Princeton University United States	345.4	78.2	72.2	76.4	79.7	100.0
6	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	341.1	83.3	71.6	79.8	96.4	73.9
7	Harvard University Harvard University United States	336.7	89.1	70.8	83.9	81.6	78.3
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	307.0	85.7	74.8	83.7	65.8	64.0
9	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	305.5	67.0	73.4	90.0	56.7	90.5
10	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) France	298.7	80.0	67.6	85.9	88.7	45.2
11	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	298.0	59.3	78.5	77.3	56.8	87.9
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	297.6	60.6	67.6	74.8	58.5	95.9
13	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	294.2	59.3	74.1	91.5	68.5	73.9
14	University of Washington University of Washington United States	282.8	56.7	75.8	78.7	56.1	78.3
15	Cornell University Cornell University United States	271.6	54.6	70.6	76.4	51.3	79.8
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	265.6	62.3	73.0	75.4	63.0	52.2
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	255.1	88.5	69.5	86.0	80.0	0.0
18	Nagoya University Nagoya University Japan	254.8	62.9	55.2	69.7	48.9	73.9
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	253.6	78.0	73.0	87.6	85.0	0.0
20	Columbia University Columbia University United States	250.5	55.8	78.5	81.8	57.2	42.6
21	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium	244.9	41.9	69.0	89.4	42.3	73.9
22	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	242.9	51.6	70.1	81.9	52.5	52.2
23	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	242.1	56.3	75.4	86.7	61.1	32.0
24	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	240.5	72.6	70.5	77.9	81.8	0.0
25	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	239.5	76.9	55.0	67.5	62.2	32.0
26	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 France	239.3	81.1	63.0	87.5	77.7	0.0
27	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	238.5	67.7	63.6	79.6	54.4	36.9
28	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 France	237.8	73.2	73.2	90.2	73.3	0.0
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	235.4	67.2	72.9	87.6	77.8	0.0
30	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	235.1	78.3	61.5	84.7	78.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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