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
1	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	284.1	88.9	79.5	78.6	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	272.9	80.1	79.2	76.1	98.4
3	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	266.0	100.0	67.5	70.1	84.4
4	Southeast University Southeast University China	249.5	78.4	70.7	80.2	84.4
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	243.0	81.5	66.5	65.4	81.9
6	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	235.2	75.4	69.9	71.6	75.5
7	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	235.1	72.9	72.7	71.4	75.2
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	234.4	66.3	79.2	77.3	73.4
9	Tongji University Tongji University China	231.3	79.7	61.9	78.0	74.0
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	230.6	71.3	74.0	76.7	69.9
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	228.9	60.6	78.3	79.5	74.0
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	227.3	59.4	82.2	80.5	69.6
13	Monash University Monash University Australia	226.9	74.7	67.0	66.9	71.8
14	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	226.4	51.8	86.1	72.5	74.0
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	224.9	70.2	66.7	68.4	74.3
16	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Australia	222.7	69.0	69.4	63.9	71.5
17	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	222.3	60.9	68.9	75.5	77.3
18	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	218.9	66.8	73.7	73.1	63.7
19	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	218.4	55.8	79.9	82.4	66.2
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	214.3	67.2	71.2	66.3	62.7
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	212.1	72.2	61.6	56.7	66.9
22	McGill University McGill University Canada	210.8	60.0	73.0	66.3	64.5
23	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	210.3	65.1	68.3	76.2	61.6
24	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	208.9	48.7	81.1	86.0	61.9
25	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	208.7	65.8	61.9	63.7	68.2
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	208.1	71.1	60.7	52.1	65.9
27	Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology Sweden	208.0	59.3	73.2	67.9	61.9
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	207.4	67.3	63.9	62.2	63.7
29	University College London University College London United Kingdom	206.2	65.0	69.4	68.5	58.1
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	204.7	42.8	97.2	82.3	48.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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