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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	298.2	100.0	84.0	70.9	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	238.8	78.1	80.3	67.3	67.0
3	University College London University College London United Kingdom	228.9	72.9	74.1	81.0	65.7
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	222.0	60.1	85.6	68.7	62.6
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	213.0	60.2	81.5	61.2	59.1
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	210.6	65.9	71.1	76.1	58.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	209.5	54.0	88.3	65.3	54.1
8	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	208.8	57.4	79.4	84.1	55.1
9	Yale University Yale University United States	202.1	53.2	83.4	66.5	52.3
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	200.3	41.1	100.0	71.5	44.9
11	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	199.4	47.9	90.0	60.5	49.4
12	University of Washington University of Washington United States	199.3	55.3	79.2	64.3	51.9
13	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	198.6	53.9	80.0	66.9	51.3
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	198.3	56.4	76.8	61.9	52.7
15	Columbia University Columbia University United States	198.3	51.8	82.5	65.0	51.0
16	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus United States	196.7	57.6	75.2	57.5	52.4
17	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	195.4	54.8	73.4	85.3	50.1
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	190.1	49.2	76.4	83.5	47.8
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	189.9	51.9	75.5	75.3	47.5
20	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	189.7	47.2	79.6	82.6	46.3
21	McGill University McGill University Canada	189.7	51.3	72.7	78.7	49.9
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	189.6	46.7	78.3	82.4	48.1
23	Emory University Emory University United States	189.2	52.8	77.5	60.5	46.9
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	187.1	58.1	76.1	57.0	41.4
25	New York University New York University United States	186.7	49.0	82.5	63.7	42.5
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	185.9	52.1	75.5	56.1	47.1
27	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai United States	185.7	43.0	85.8	65.8	43.8
28	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin Germany	185.4	51.8	72.5	74.3	46.3
29	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	183.2	50.8	72.3	73.7	45.4
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	183.2	45.8	80.3	63.6	44.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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