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
1	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	294.4	100.0	77.0	87.2	100.0
2	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	253.3	84.4	72.7	77.8	80.6
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	252.8	90.9	67.6	62.8	81.8
4	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden	245.1	82.6	69.9	84.1	75.8
5	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	244.6	87.5	69.7	52.5	76.9
6	University of Florida University of Florida United States	234.7	87.1	65.2	69.1	68.7
7	Cornell University Cornell University United States	234.6	73.3	76.5	75.6	69.6
8	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	231.1	84.6	65.7	60.8	68.6
9	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	227.1	69.3	74.6	85.7	66.0
10	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	226.9	68.7	73.2	84.7	68.1
11	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	226.1	99.1	54.1	57.2	61.4
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	225.1	68.3	74.6	86.1	65.0
13	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	222.0	68.7	76.8	66.4	63.3
14	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	219.9	66.7	74.6	85.1	61.5
15	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University China	219.3	72.7	70.5	56.7	64.8
16	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	218.9	65.3	77.7	83.2	59.2
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	218.2	71.1	71.0	61.7	63.8
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	218.1	66.4	74.6	68.6	63.3
19	AgroParisTech AgroParisTech France	215.5	62.8	74.2	79.1	62.8
20	Iowa State University Iowa State University United States	211.8	65.1	72.7	67.3	60.5
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	209.7	63.8	75.4	63.3	57.8
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	207.9	61.6	73.4	70.2	58.8
23	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen Germany	205.6	61.5	73.4	81.2	54.4
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	205.0	62.9	69.7	78.7	56.6
25	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	203.9	69.4	63.8	61.7	58.3
26	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	203.3	63.9	67.6	75.1	56.7
27	Oregon State University Oregon State University United States	201.0	65.8	67.3	63.9	55.1
28	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	200.0	59.4	72.2	71.9	54.0
29	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	198.7	50.6	84.7	78.8	47.6
30	Washington State University Washington State University United States	198.1	61.6	66.3	68.4	56.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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