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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	275.4	98.2	65.4	58.8	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	259.4	100.0	53.4	50.3	95.9
3	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	243.2	85.9	55.7	54.7	90.6
4	Beihang University Beihang University China	240.9	92.5	52.4	44.2	87.1
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	232.2	72.9	61.8	80.5	81.4
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	227.9	85.4	51.9	40.5	82.5
7	Southeast University Southeast University China	225.7	76.0	59.3	53.3	79.9
8	Jilin University Jilin University China	213.0	65.7	63.4	32.1	77.5
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	208.8	77.2	49.9	52.9	71.1
10	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	207.8	75.7	53.6	44.2	69.6
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	206.5	83.4	57.7	77.4	49.8
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	204.0	85.1	53.1	74.8	50.8
13	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University China	203.7	78.5	48.6	43.6	67.8
14	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	202.7	36.7	100.0	87.3	48.6
15	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	201.6	67.2	54.6	51.5	69.6
16	University of Malaya University of Malaya Malaysia	198.4	60.1	61.0	74.6	62.4
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	197.6	61.6	61.2	78.1	59.2
18	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	197.2	85.6	46.2	59.9	53.4
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	197.1	67.5	61.0	78.7	53.0
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	196.4	67.2	54.6	49.3	64.8
21	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	193.5	59.1	59.5	57.6	63.4
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	193.2	66.8	54.8	77.1	56.1
23	Stanford University Stanford University United States	193.1	70.5	57.7	78.9	49.1
24	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	192.7	58.6	60.3	50.8	63.6
25	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	191.3	63.9	52.9	51.0	64.4
26	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	189.8	64.9	58.4	82.5	50.1
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	189.4	74.0	53.6	67.1	48.3
28	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia Spain	189.3	51.4	63.2	75.5	59.6
29	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	188.0	56.8	60.1	70.5	57.0
30	University of Science and Technology of China China	187.3	72.6	47.6	56.0	55.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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