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	AWARD
1	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	297.7	80.7	83.0	81.9	100.0	88.2
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	284.8	76.8	92.6	82.9	98.8	0.0
3	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	270.7	99.7	82.7	86.8	71.0	0.0
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	265.6	65.0	79.9	71.5	86.5	100.0
5	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	265.2	70.5	87.8	84.8	90.0	0.0
6	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	264.3	80.6	75.1	78.8	83.3	47.1
7	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	260.6	96.9	70.1	65.7	80.6	0.0
8	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	258.9	76.1	77.8	81.5	77.2	57.7
9	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	258.3	59.8	99.1	89.5	81.5	0.0
10	Hohai University Hohai University China	258.0	100.0	63.9	70.2	80.1	0.0
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	254.5	67.1	83.2	78.8	75.2	66.7
12	Flinders University Flinders University Australia	250.9	61.5	79.3	83.9	93.3	0.0
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	248.9	84.9	75.7	68.5	74.6	0.0
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	247.6	58.1	87.5	57.2	75.7	74.5
15	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	244.4	44.9	97.4	80.5	68.2	88.2
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	241.0	60.4	81.6	65.1	86.0	0.0
17	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	239.7	82.4	80.1	83.5	60.5	0.0
18	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Canada	237.0	61.4	87.8	83.8	71.0	0.0
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	235.0	60.4	87.0	88.7	69.9	0.0
20	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	234.9	76.5	80.4	78.2	62.4	0.0
21	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	233.3	77.1	70.4	66.1	72.6	0.0
22	Colorado School of Mines Colorado School of Mines United States	226.5	50.9	93.1	71.5	68.2	0.0
23	Stanford University Stanford University United States	223.3	55.4	87.0	72.1	66.5	0.0
24	Oregon State University Oregon State University United States	223.2	60.6	80.7	70.8	67.7	0.0
25	University of Padua University of Padua Italy	222.5	53.7	84.9	84.3	67.1	0.0
26	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	222.3	56.7	87.3	82.8	61.8	0.0
27	Cornell University Cornell University United States	222.2	53.6	81.0	73.8	58.0	74.5
28	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Australia	218.1	49.4	91.1	70.1	63.6	0.0
29	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	218.0	68.8	67.0	58.3	70.4	0.0
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	217.9	51.0	93.8	85.6	55.9	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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