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.

493 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	287.7	53.7	70.7	73.6	61.9	86.6
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	263.5	42.6	84.9	71.1	45.5	76.4
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	255.2	100.0	55.7	41.9	91.1	0.0
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	254.5	97.5	54.7	48.1	92.7	0.0
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	247.9	49.5	65.3	60.9	56.3	64.5
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	247.4	50.0	66.8	65.6	59.8	57.7
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	242.3	27.6	82.6	68.1	42.1	76.4
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	241.2	99.6	59.9	55.6	70.6	0.0
9	East China University of Science and Technology China	240.8	93.0	50.3	40.3	89.5	0.0
10	Beijing University of Chemical Technology China	238.9	79.1	52.1	38.4	100.0	0.0
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	237.8	46.7	69.2	72.3	49.7	57.7
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	232.0	31.1	61.0	64.0	27.2	100.0
13	Princeton University Princeton University United States	228.8	40.4	72.8	75.5	35.9	64.5
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	223.3	59.8	86.1	84.6	60.4	0.0
15	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	221.2	77.4	63.4	50.4	70.3	0.0
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	218.3	66.7	74.1	76.7	62.2	0.0
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	210.9	51.4	58.5	75.9	45.1	40.8
18	University of Delaware University of Delaware United States	209.2	32.3	65.1	64.2	34.4	64.5
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	203.8	38.7	98.5	82.4	50.1	0.0
20	University of Science and Technology of China China	199.4	62.3	69.0	52.5	57.6	0.0
21	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	196.5	77.1	57.8	48.6	51.9	0.0
22	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	195.8	42.3	65.3	67.0	45.9	28.9
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	195.7	65.5	61.5	47.9	59.2	0.0
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	195.6	64.6	62.8	78.5	52.6	0.0
25	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	190.7	41.8	58.3	77.1	46.3	28.9
26	Islamic Azad University Islamic Azad University Iran	186.7	92.7	52.6	49.0	31.6	0.0
27	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	185.9	57.8	61.7	81.8	50.1	0.0
28	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing China	185.4	82.0	45.7	47.0	48.2	0.0
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	185.3	39.4	56.6	62.3	35.9	40.8
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	183.9	53.5	59.4	67.7	28.5	28.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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