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.

201 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	296.0	100.0	81.3	73.3	100.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	278.4	80.7	84.6	92.9	94.5
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	267.1	84.5	79.4	76.4	87.9
4	Durham University Durham University United Kingdom	254.7	74.2	86.0	76.6	79.2
5	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	253.3	65.6	92.4	95.3	76.2
6	University College London University College London United Kingdom	248.0	79.3	80.6	69.3	74.3
7	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	246.0	79.4	81.1	66.3	72.3
8	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	245.9	72.4	78.9	88.0	77.1
9	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	242.1	65.1	79.9	96.9	77.7
10	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	241.5	58.1	89.2	92.8	75.6
11	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	239.4	64.1	87.8	87.6	70.0
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	238.9	67.3	81.8	76.6	74.5
13	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	233.9	68.8	75.6	76.5	74.3
14	University of Washington University of Washington United States	232.7	60.0	90.5	72.4	67.7
15	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	230.1	63.2	81.3	76.7	70.3
16	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	230.0	68.0	75.6	74.2	71.6
17	Columbia University Columbia University United States	229.9	61.9	83.9	79.7	68.1
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	227.4	60.1	81.6	76.2	70.5
19	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	227.2	67.5	77.1	72.4	68.1
20	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	227.2	65.0	77.1	95.7	66.0
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	225.7	72.8	73.2	67.5	66.2
22	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	225.6	63.5	76.6	83.2	68.8
23	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	225.6	70.6	71.0	67.9	70.5
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	225.0	57.1	84.2	90.9	65.5
25	Lund University Lund University Sweden	222.9	59.6	80.1	88.6	65.5
26	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	222.7	69.3	71.5	63.0	69.3
27	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	222.4	60.7	80.8	63.7	68.1
28	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	222.4	59.7	86.0	71.2	62.4
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	222.0	64.0	81.1	71.1	62.7
30	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield United Kingdom	219.9	64.8	75.3	66.8	66.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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