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.

301 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	289.0	97.3	77.5	70.9	100.0
2	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	284.5	100.0	75.8	56.7	97.4
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	264.8	91.9	74.9	48.1	88.4
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	254.0	74.3	87.1	50.8	82.5
5	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	243.1	74.7	76.6	70.8	77.6
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	242.8	76.7	78.7	50.2	77.4
7	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	242.0	82.1	73.1	53.4	76.2
8	University of Campinas University of Campinas Brazil	242.0	81.0	77.2	41.1	75.6
9	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst United States	240.1	56.0	100.0	81.4	67.7
10	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	235.8	77.0	72.4	75.6	71.3
11	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	233.5	70.0	80.4	48.8	73.5
12	University of Porto University of Porto Portugal	231.3	67.7	74.3	63.7	76.5
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	229.5	68.3	73.4	76.2	72.6
14	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	228.8	70.5	82.8	69.4	61.6
15	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	227.2	62.7	78.1	65.9	73.2
16	University College Dublin University College Dublin Ireland	221.9	58.4	91.8	71.6	57.3
17	Nanchang University Nanchang University China	219.8	57.6	88.6	61.4	61.3
18	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	219.4	69.2	74.3	56.1	64.7
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	213.4	55.2	78.1	79.8	64.1
20	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	211.6	58.3	76.4	63.1	64.4
21	Cornell University Cornell University United States	211.3	70.5	74.6	68.9	52.4
22	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	210.7	61.2	82.0	72.8	52.9
23	University of Bologna University of Bologna Italy	210.4	61.1	73.1	69.0	62.5
24	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia	209.0	46.0	91.8	96.9	51.8
25	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	208.6	54.1	79.8	60.9	62.5
26	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain	207.8	58.5	76.4	54.8	62.0
27	University Putra Malaysia University Putra Malaysia Malaysia	206.0	79.2	56.0	61.1	58.6
28	China Medical University (Taichung) China Medical University (Taichung) Taiwan, China	204.0	53.7	73.1	46.0	68.1
29	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	203.1	56.8	66.3	44.6	71.0
30	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich Germany	202.9	59.4	71.8	56.8	60.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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