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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	354.2	76.8	90.0	70.2	100.0	73.3
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	349.7	61.0	100.0	71.5	80.3	94.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	340.7	72.0	89.7	70.4	85.1	79.8
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	316.7	59.5	86.0	73.6	78.2	78.3
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	315.5	46.8	87.2	62.9	69.0	100.0
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	302.5	62.6	88.7	66.7	88.6	49.2
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	280.9	69.7	74.1	79.2	74.8	46.5
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	276.6	66.1	80.1	84.8	76.5	36.9
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	274.1	69.5	80.1	65.7	78.7	32.6
10	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	271.7	86.6	64.5	51.0	95.3	15.1
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	268.7	59.3	84.7	61.6	67.2	45.2
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	265.6	84.0	93.9	80.9	71.5	0.0
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	263.0	62.8	88.9	76.3	53.4	42.6
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	251.7	66.7	80.8	79.0	73.3	15.1
15	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	247.7	80.1	67.1	51.1	90.3	0.0
16	University of Science and Technology of China China	247.5	85.5	81.7	49.4	70.3	0.0
17	Columbia University Columbia University United States	247.3	41.8	82.7	68.4	55.5	53.7
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	246.9	51.4	72.6	67.0	57.3	52.2
19	Peking University Peking University China	244.1	87.2	76.2	49.5	70.9	0.0
20	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	242.4	50.1	91.4	71.9	67.1	19.5
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	240.8	93.5	78.6	48.1	59.1	0.0
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	234.7	60.5	94.1	85.8	63.0	0.0
23	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	233.4	49.2	80.3	65.1	60.7	30.2
24	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	232.9	45.8	86.9	73.0	58.0	27.5
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	231.2	74.0	83.8	76.8	58.0	0.0
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	230.8	41.9	81.7	61.0	56.1	38.9
27	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	229.5	99.1	72.0	47.9	48.7	0.0
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	228.3	56.2	77.7	62.8	69.6	12.3
29	Fudan University Fudan University China	225.0	78.2	77.7	50.8	58.9	0.0
30	Rice University Rice University United States	223.1	41.4	92.9	71.5	35.7	38.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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