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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	260.5	87.0	60.4	65.2	100.0
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China	240.7	100.0	48.6	58.8	80.3
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	230.5	68.5	61.6	80.6	84.2
4	Xidian University Xidian University China	220.8	92.7	44.2	51.5	73.6
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	217.9	43.9	100.0	67.2	60.6
6	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	216.1	53.2	69.6	80.4	77.3
7	Southeast University Southeast University China	215.8	76.7	54.6	60.4	72.4
8	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	212.6	54.2	65.7	83.3	76.1
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	211.7	53.3	75.5	77.2	67.4
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	210.0	69.7	50.8	58.4	77.8
11	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	209.6	88.2	48.2	59.5	61.3
12	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	205.7	59.9	58.5	71.5	73.0
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	199.2	53.3	62.2	71.2	69.5
14	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	199.0	47.4	63.0	74.2	73.7
15	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	197.2	58.1	60.2	71.4	64.6
16	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	195.2	46.7	65.1	67.9	69.8
17	Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore	188.4	36.3	77.5	92.1	56.2
18	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec France	187.7	40.5	77.4	84.2	52.9
19	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	186.7	51.2	56.1	83.3	62.8
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	186.5	61.7	48.6	51.3	66.0
21	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	186.1	53.7	58.5	58.3	62.3
22	Princeton University Princeton University United States	180.9	33.8	82.2	87.0	47.6
23	University of Science and Technology of China China	178.5	49.3	55.4	64.6	60.9
24	Linkoping University Linkoping University Sweden	178.5	28.3	97.6	75.1	37.6
25	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	174.9	58.7	49.2	69.3	53.1
26	University College London University College London United Kingdom	174.8	41.3	65.4	80.1	52.1
27	Peking University Peking University China	174.6	46.2	58.9	70.0	55.6
28	Aalto University Aalto University Finland	172.6	49.1	56.3	76.6	51.9
29	University of Houston University of Houston United States	172.5	34.8	70.7	90.3	48.8
30	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	171.5	31.6	79.7	79.4	44.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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