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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier France	290.0	97.8	74.7	87.4	100.0
2	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	280.7	97.4	79.7	88.6	85.9
3	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	278.8	100.0	73.3	64.6	92.6
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	271.0	90.4	87.7	71.3	78.7
5	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	267.7	93.8	84.0	87.6	72.4
6	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	267.5	79.6	80.1	82.1	91.3
7	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	262.2	80.5	84.4	70.6	83.1
8	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden	255.9	90.7	81.0	84.9	67.3
9	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	253.8	64.6	97.0	67.6	78.7
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	251.0	73.6	85.6	88.8	74.0
11	University of Florida University of Florida United States	249.0	92.4	70.3	69.6	72.4
12	James Cook University James Cook University Australia	247.1	89.6	80.6	76.4	61.7
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	245.5	90.2	77.2	81.7	61.7
14	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	241.3	84.1	76.5	85.4	63.6
15	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	240.4	71.4	78.4	91.5	72.4
16	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	239.8	96.0	77.2	76.9	51.2
17	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki Finland	238.3	86.3	73.7	82.7	61.7
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	238.1	75.0	70.8	75.5	77.2
19	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield United Kingdom	237.9	68.0	75.2	87.9	77.2
20	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen Germany	237.3	70.2	85.0	83.0	65.5
21	Cornell University Cornell University United States	236.4	85.2	74.2	66.8	63.6
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	236.1	74.2	84.8	86.8	59.8
23	Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3 Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3 France	236.0	68.1	73.7	85.1	77.2
24	Montpellier SupAgro Montpellier SupAgro France	235.1	70.9	73.3	84.4	74.0
25	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	233.4	64.1	84.8	69.0	70.7
26	Stanford University Stanford University United States	231.9	69.2	88.1	74.6	59.8
27	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	230.0	81.3	74.7	61.1	61.7
28	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	229.8	67.3	78.8	82.4	67.3
29	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	228.6	82.6	74.9	77.3	55.6
30	University of Washington University of Washington United States	228.6	81.0	76.8	65.0	57.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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