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.

476 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	262.2	98.0	50.9	66.0	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	216.3	100.0	52.9	68.5	49.8
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine United Kingdom	193.5	62.0	55.2	90.1	58.3
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	191.1	63.3	48.2	58.2	68.1
5	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	187.1	56.0	52.0	81.7	62.8
6	University College London University College London United Kingdom	185.8	62.1	53.3	76.4	55.0
7	University of Washington University of Washington United States	185.1	66.3	53.7	61.1	52.9
8	Emory University Emory University United States	183.4	64.9	55.2	60.9	51.1
9	Columbia University Columbia University United States	183.0	58.8	53.0	60.9	59.0
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	180.2	69.6	48.4	69.0	48.4
11	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	175.6	36.0	67.5	69.5	58.3
12	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	172.9	50.8	51.6	77.2	55.0
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	172.6	53.0	59.1	85.4	43.4
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	172.5	49.5	58.0	83.1	48.4
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	170.5	58.8	45.0	49.7	56.7
16	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	167.5	64.5	52.9	61.9	37.7
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	164.0	37.1	54.6	61.0	60.2
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	160.7	49.8	55.9	69.3	41.2
19	Boston University Boston University United States	160.0	46.4	54.0	58.6	47.9
20	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	159.6	44.5	49.6	76.1	50.2
21	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	158.4	57.0	46.9	55.8	43.4
22	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	158.1	50.6	52.6	68.2	41.2
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	156.7	41.4	63.1	76.0	37.1
24	Yale University Yale University United States	156.3	52.6	54.6	57.6	37.7
25	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	155.8	45.8	56.9	73.8	38.3
26	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	155.8	51.3	56.1	68.8	34.5
27	University of Crete University of Crete Greece	155.0	15.9	100.0	88.4	21.4
28	Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University Spain	150.5	24.1	58.6	81.2	51.6
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	149.8	33.2	68.4	71.4	33.9
30	Duke University Duke University United States	149.7	47.6	51.3	59.3	38.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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