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.

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	306.4	100.0	92.8	81.6	97.3
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	290.8	87.6	88.1	75.9	100.0
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	279.9	83.1	89.8	80.0	91.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	274.2	73.5	97.4	72.5	88.8
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	273.8	81.4	84.7	75.3	92.6
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	268.5	93.6	82.5	58.4	80.7
7	Peking University Peking University China	264.8	88.5	81.4	57.4	83.4
8	Harvard University Harvard University United States	262.7	73.0	87.7	78.3	86.3
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	259.3	85.0	80.0	77.2	78.9
10	University of Science and Technology of China China	249.4	80.6	88.6	57.0	68.8
11	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	247.9	79.4	76.5	54.1	81.2
12	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	246.6	85.4	71.7	54.7	78.5
13	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	246.3	70.5	80.2	68.7	81.8
14	Rice University Rice University United States	244.5	57.2	100.0	73.1	72.6
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	242.2	61.6	93.1	74.9	72.5
16	Fudan University Fudan University China	240.7	75.0	87.5	58.4	66.5
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	239.0	69.3	78.2	90.2	73.4
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	237.9	67.5	86.3	86.5	66.8
19	Soochow University Soochow University China	236.9	72.3	87.5	60.2	65.2
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	235.2	77.2	81.2	67.0	63.3
21	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	232.3	83.6	69.7	52.4	68.4
22	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	228.2	61.7	89.4	64.9	64.1
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	227.2	68.5	77.4	68.6	67.7
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	226.2	56.1	93.7	84.7	59.5
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	224.9	65.5	75.1	66.7	71.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	222.4	63.0	78.7	81.4	64.4
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	220.5	81.4	74.9	58.2	52.6
28	Jilin University Jilin University China	215.5	79.4	73.1	54.3	52.2
29	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	215.3	76.0	76.3	55.0	52.0
30	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	214.7	68.7	71.9	58.4	62.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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