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.

396 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	290.1	100.0	75.5	72.6	100.0
2	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France	260.1	74.2	79.0	92.9	88.3
3	Columbia University Columbia University United States	250.9	71.5	80.4	77.2	83.5
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	238.2	76.1	71.7	77.2	75.0
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	235.9	65.1	81.0	89.7	72.0
6	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	232.2	71.9	73.3	77.3	71.6
7	University of Washington University of Washington United States	228.8	68.5	74.2	64.7	73.2
8	Princeton University Princeton University United States	224.6	57.6	82.7	76.5	69.0
9	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	223.8	70.3	70.1	76.4	68.2
10	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	223.6	71.6	68.7	65.3	70.3
11	Harvard University Harvard University United States	220.4	57.2	82.7	80.9	64.3
12	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	219.5	81.0	53.1	69.8	71.4
13	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	216.7	57.2	79.7	89.5	61.9
14	Peking University Peking University China	214.9	62.1	69.3	77.0	68.1
15	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki Finland	212.5	59.2	71.3	91.4	63.7
16	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	211.7	63.0	68.7	88.5	62.3
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	211.2	56.8	77.8	68.8	62.9
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	209.7	57.9	76.8	75.4	59.9
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	205.0	58.1	69.9	73.5	62.3
20	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	204.1	50.9	78.7	77.2	59.1
21	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	203.3	60.8	67.4	71.4	60.8
22	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	199.3	47.6	80.6	84.4	54.1
23	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	198.5	49.0	80.8	90.8	50.5
24	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	196.4	52.3	68.3	92.7	57.3
25	University of East Anglia University of East Anglia United Kingdom	196.3	43.6	84.0	90.5	50.5
26	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	194.6	41.6	90.2	82.4	46.3
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	194.2	49.7	74.4	74.7	55.2
28	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	193.7	48.3	74.6	89.7	52.8
29	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	193.3	61.7	60.1	74.8	56.4
30	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	193.2	50.0	69.3	85.4	56.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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