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.

199 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Washington University of Washington United States	280.5	76.9	90.6	65.1	100.0
2	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	268.7	72.6	84.8	73.1	96.6
3	Oregon State University Oregon State University United States	241.8	63.8	85.6	66.0	79.3
4	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	237.4	62.3	86.5	82.1	72.2
5	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	220.4	63.7	77.9	85.7	61.7
6	Ocean University of China Ocean University of China China	218.8	100.0	50.5	51.1	58.1
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	218.1	50.4	93.1	73.2	60.0
8	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	216.7	52.2	85.8	71.7	64.4
9	Columbia University Columbia University United States	214.7	46.7	86.8	79.2	65.3
10	University of Bergen University of Bergen Norway	214.2	53.1	82.6	81.9	62.1
11	University of Miami University of Miami United States	212.9	54.4	78.4	70.3	66.0
12	Universite de Brest Universite de Brest France	209.9	52.6	76.3	82.0	64.6
13	University of Tasmania University of Tasmania Australia	206.1	55.5	78.7	78.0	56.3
14	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) France	205.3	44.3	85.8	87.0	57.8
15	University of Bremen University of Bremen Germany	203.0	50.3	79.0	83.6	57.1
16	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	202.2	49.2	78.7	91.3	56.0
17	Stanford University Stanford University United States	199.7	39.5	98.7	70.3	47.4
18	University of Hamburg University of Hamburg Germany	199.0	50.0	73.2	81.5	59.5
19	University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz United States	198.1	46.2	91.5	71.1	46.2
20	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	197.9	37.7	91.7	71.3	54.2
21	Princeton University Princeton University United States	197.7	36.6	95.7	77.8	49.8
22	University of Alaska - Fairbanks University of Alaska - Fairbanks United States	196.4	45.5	89.2	72.8	47.1
23	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	195.8	47.9	74.9	81.2	56.8
24	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	189.8	51.5	76.8	78.4	45.9
25	University of Delaware University of Delaware United States	188.8	41.1	81.0	70.0	52.6
26	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	188.2	33.5	94.0	79.1	44.9
27	Florida State University Florida State University United States	187.8	43.0	82.1	70.8	48.6
28	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	186.2	37.2	86.1	70.3	48.9
29	University of Rhode Island University of Rhode Island United States	186.0	43.8	79.2	70.6	48.9
30	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	185.3	40.0	85.6	61.7	47.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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