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.

301 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	287.9	100.0	74.7	66.1	100.0
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	224.1	58.3	82.1	79.2	67.8
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	223.5	68.8	76.0	64.1	65.9
4	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	219.6	65.8	70.7	73.2	68.4
5	Stanford University Stanford University United States	205.2	57.5	73.7	64.5	61.1
6	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	203.4	44.2	86.3	83.6	56.2
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	201.4	45.2	85.6	80.2	54.6
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	200.8	54.3	74.2	62.4	59.8
9	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	198.0	58.1	71.0	55.8	57.8
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	196.3	49.2	75.5	67.7	58.0
11	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University Germany	195.1	55.8	76.2	67.7	49.6
12	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	193.3	41.1	83.1	82.7	52.6
13	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	191.0	49.7	80.9	50.9	50.1
14	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	190.9	40.9	86.0	80.5	47.9
15	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	190.3	48.9	77.5	73.4	49.2
16	New York University New York University United States	188.1	55.4	76.0	56.1	45.6
17	Duke University Duke University United States	187.9	51.9	73.1	56.3	51.6
18	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich Germany	185.8	43.6	81.6	73.7	45.8
19	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	184.6	39.8	81.4	85.6	46.3
20	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	184.3	45.3	73.1	77.3	50.4
21	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	183.1	51.3	72.6	56.6	47.8
22	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam Netherlands	183.0	38.0	84.0	73.9	46.3
23	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	182.9	38.6	83.5	80.6	44.6
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	179.8	52.8	69.6	49.2	47.6
25	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna Austria	179.5	42.1	75.0	82.2	46.0
26	McGill University McGill University Canada	178.6	39.8	80.0	83.7	42.1
27	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	178.6	46.7	74.4	57.7	45.8
28	Yale University Yale University United States	177.2	41.9	76.8	59.8	46.6
29	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	177.0	45.0	70.7	65.4	48.2
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	176.9	50.1	75.2	59.5	39.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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