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.

194 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	305.4	51.1	46.1	65.3	95.1	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	287.7	60.3	60.9	65.7	100.0	53.5
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	278.2	53.5	60.7	78.8	82.7	65.5
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	264.2	100.0	67.6	63.8	83.8	0.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	263.4	49.9	52.3	67.9	72.0	75.6
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	262.0	48.9	53.6	86.6	76.7	65.5
7	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	258.5	44.6	57.1	71.9	57.9	84.5
8	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia	252.4	47.7	48.2	88.7	73.3	65.5
9	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	250.3	37.2	61.6	80.7	81.9	53.5
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	244.8	54.4	51.7	63.9	72.5	53.5
11	Stanford University Stanford University United States	240.4	37.0	50.5	57.5	56.8	84.5
12	Harvard University Harvard University United States	237.4	34.2	78.0	66.9	46.4	65.5
13	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	228.2	34.8	57.1	91.0	64.6	53.5
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	223.8	67.3	64.3	86.1	75.1	0.0
15	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	215.0	47.3	59.4	83.1	91.7	0.0
16	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	214.8	32.6	51.6	72.3	40.6	75.6
17	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	212.6	56.0	73.3	58.4	71.6	0.0
18	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	212.4	32.6	48.4	81.7	61.6	53.5
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	209.5	79.6	54.1	60.6	63.6	0.0
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	209.1	29.6	49.8	71.2	39.8	75.6
21	Southeast University Southeast University China	202.0	69.3	68.3	58.4	52.8	0.0
22	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	201.4	52.6	54.6	65.3	81.1	0.0
23	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	201.2	76.6	53.3	58.9	59.5	0.0
24	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	200.4	29.6	46.5	79.6	42.8	65.5
25	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Australia	199.8	40.9	90.6	96.3	49.0	0.0
26	Beihang University Beihang University China	198.0	83.3	53.4	45.8	52.2	0.0
27	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	197.1	43.6	58.6	70.7	80.7	0.0
28	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	192.1	61.2	58.0	77.3	57.4	0.0
29	New York University New York University United States	191.4	30.2	63.7	73.1	45.0	37.8
30	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel	189.1	32.1	37.2	74.0	51.6	53.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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