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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	273.7	56.7	100.0	84.8	100.0
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	255.7	49.3	100.0	87.7	88.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	252.5	55.4	87.9	75.1	94.1
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	250.3	61.5	76.9	75.2	96.9
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	249.7	71.9	73.2	76.1	89.3
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	242.0	100.0	72.5	58.6	57.7
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	229.3	63.6	71.3	71.9	80.0
8	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	226.3	68.9	70.1	79.6	71.3
9	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	222.3	53.2	74.2	71.8	80.6
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	221.7	60.9	72.7	80.8	71.9
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	216.4	29.1	97.7	82.3	73.1
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	214.4	60.0	76.7	57.7	66.2
13	University of Science and Technology of China China	214.3	78.2	70.8	52.9	54.6
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	213.2	67.8	75.8	52.1	59.2
15	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	211.1	60.0	66.1	53.6	74.3
16	Peking University Peking University China	211.1	56.2	74.6	57.1	68.8
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	208.5	41.3	91.4	82.8	59.2
18	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	207.4	38.7	82.3	55.0	75.5
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	207.2	33.6	83.9	73.5	74.9
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	207.2	75.2	69.4	52.4	52.1
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	206.4	50.3	74.2	78.3	66.2
22	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	204.9	63.8	76.9	52.5	53.8
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	202.0	74.6	69.4	56.1	46.8
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	201.8	58.3	80.8	74.9	47.8
25	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University China	199.6	80.2	72.3	48.3	37.5
26	University of Washington University of Washington United States	199.3	33.0	90.1	84.7	59.2
27	Fudan University Fudan University China	197.5	46.5	78.2	64.1	60.0
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	197.3	70.9	64.7	78.8	45.9
29	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	195.3	59.2	64.2	52.6	61.4
30	Monash University Monash University Australia	194.4	42.3	76.4	82.2	59.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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