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.

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Beihang University Beihang University China	264.7	100.0	80.1	43.7	75.8
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	235.7	60.6	67.3	39.2	100.0
3	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	234.2	46.1	92.9	53.8	84.4
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	231.8	47.7	84.0	45.2	91.1
5	National University of Defense Technology China	224.0	73.3	86.5	38.5	56.5
6	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	220.1	45.2	76.1	44.2	89.9
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	219.4	66.8	86.8	46.8	56.5
8	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	209.5	66.3	79.8	43.9	54.6
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	203.4	50.6	77.5	75.9	60.1
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	199.0	39.0	84.0	41.8	67.6
11	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	197.0	63.5	71.1	39.0	54.6
12	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	194.8	26.0	89.4	82.9	62.7
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	194.7	44.5	78.5	49.3	61.9
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	193.9	44.9	85.8	42.5	54.6
15	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	192.2	30.0	99.2	73.2	48.4
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	190.8	29.3	92.6	48.2	59.3
17	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	190.4	43.6	87.7	48.6	49.5
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	189.9	25.5	82.1	73.2	67.6
19	Stanford University Stanford University United States	189.0	31.3	89.7	62.6	55.5
20	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	188.5	27.2	90.0	42.3	62.7
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	188.3	41.9	74.7	36.4	64.4
22	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel	186.1	43.0	70.7	65.7	59.3
23	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	185.3	50.3	66.1	39.7	61.0
24	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	184.2	34.2	100.0	57.1	38.6
25	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	182.3	48.5	79.8	45.2	45.0
26	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	182.3	38.4	66.9	59.2	65.2
27	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	177.2	41.0	76.8	44.5	50.5
28	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	176.6	31.5	77.1	72.1	53.6
29	University of Virginia University of Virginia United States	176.3	25.8	76.8	59.2	61.9
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	174.3	38.0	71.1	38.7	57.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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