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.

502 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	324.0	100.0	69.7	74.3	100.0	39.5
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	302.3	57.1	84.6	73.7	70.8	75.0
3	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	282.0	56.3	68.9	69.3	56.4	86.6
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	281.3	62.4	64.0	84.2	38.1	100.0
5	Stanford University Stanford University United States	259.4	59.7	68.7	68.3	53.6	63.7
6	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University United States	244.5	28.8	70.2	72.0	48.2	82.9
7	University of Washington University of Washington United States	237.4	63.0	63.4	66.6	36.5	61.2
8	Columbia University Columbia University United States	235.7	48.9	63.6	70.3	45.5	63.7
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	230.0	70.6	63.3	67.8	39.3	43.3
10	University College London University College London United Kingdom	225.3	62.5	58.4	82.3	26.7	61.2
11	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas United States	222.0	39.4	60.4	64.2	40.8	68.5
12	Yale University Yale University United States	220.6	53.9	60.9	69.2	41.9	50.0
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	212.5	54.6	68.5	67.9	40.5	35.4
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	203.6	56.2	63.6	68.6	34.8	35.4
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	197.1	52.6	62.7	63.4	25.8	43.3
16	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School United States	196.5	31.6	64.1	66.3	34.5	53.0
17	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	190.3	50.3	61.7	88.3	25.3	35.4
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	188.9	47.1	58.6	85.5	22.9	43.3
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	182.6	26.7	69.1	64.1	27.1	46.8
20	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	179.6	60.5	60.7	71.3	44.1	0.0
21	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University United States	175.6	46.9	58.3	61.2	27.6	30.6
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	175.1	43.4	53.8	64.5	11.9	53.0
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	174.4	66.3	57.5	79.3	34.8	0.0
24	Cornell University Cornell University United States	173.4	60.2	60.9	68.2	38.7	0.0
25	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	173.2	64.5	62.8	85.2	28.8	0.0
26	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	172.4	53.3	45.9	58.9	18.2	43.3
27	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan	172.4	22.9	44.6	56.6	6.9	86.6
28	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	171.3	59.3	62.8	64.7	36.1	0.0
29	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston United States	169.5	37.6	62.2	71.2	20.1	35.4
30	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU Norway	167.4	24.9	57.9	82.0	6.9	61.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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