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.

201 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing China	266.0	100.0	57.6	42.0	100.0
2	Central South University Central South University China	232.6	98.1	57.6	37.2	69.5
3	Tohoku University Tohoku University Japan	227.3	68.4	58.8	63.8	87.4
4	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	221.1	51.1	67.0	65.9	89.8
5	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	219.2	80.3	56.4	50.1	72.5
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville United States	218.7	34.3	100.0	83.6	67.7
7	Monash University Monash University Australia	215.2	37.5	88.1	85.6	72.5
8	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	213.7	75.3	60.8	34.8	70.6
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	204.3	59.5	61.9	54.9	71.9
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	199.4	35.1	80.0	77.5	68.8
11	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	196.3	36.7	75.2	73.3	69.7
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	193.8	72.3	60.4	41.5	52.9
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	193.0	59.4	58.0	47.8	66.1
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	189.9	26.5	90.7	79.4	56.8
15	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	189.3	27.4	83.7	72.4	63.7
16	RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University Germany	187.7	37.6	77.0	74.4	58.2
17	University of Leoben University of Leoben Austria	187.6	34.8	74.6	80.9	62.0
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	187.3	34.2	75.5	83.2	61.0
19	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	186.7	35.1	70.4	81.6	64.9
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	185.7	24.2	90.4	75.5	56.0
21	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	185.1	39.5	66.6	86.3	61.8
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	182.5	28.5	80.9	77.5	57.6
23	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	180.1	59.9	61.5	37.7	51.1
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	178.5	25.7	84.3	80.8	52.3
25	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	178.3	31.8	75.2	85.0	54.3
26	Beihang University Beihang University China	177.2	50.4	60.8	43.5	57.4
27	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	177.1	26.9	75.8	82.2	57.9
28	Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Science India	176.2	34.6	72.7	64.7	56.0
29	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	175.5	23.8	82.0	76.6	54.3
30	Ruhr University Bochum Ruhr University Bochum Germany	175.0	26.6	83.7	75.4	49.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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