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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	294.3	100.0	76.5	60.9	100.0
2	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	245.0	88.9	72.5	73.2	68.0
3	University College London University College London United Kingdom	237.5	83.0	73.3	75.0	68.9
4	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	236.8	78.3	75.8	48.4	76.6
5	Stanford University Stanford University United States	235.3	67.1	83.0	58.5	87.3
6	New York University New York University United States	234.3	73.2	78.2	55.4	79.8
7	Columbia University Columbia University United States	231.3	77.1	71.5	56.9	74.2
8	Yale University Yale University United States	228.5	75.5	75.8	58.1	71.6
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	223.9	77.0	78.4	49.1	64.2
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	222.8	70.8	76.0	52.7	73.3
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	222.3	69.7	75.5	50.6	75.0
12	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	213.7	72.4	73.5	50.6	63.2
13	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	210.4	64.5	75.0	54.1	70.7
14	Duke University Duke University United States	209.8	63.1	78.9	59.5	69.8
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	202.6	65.8	76.0	78.5	58.1
16	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	199.4	67.9	78.4	71.0	51.2
17	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam Netherlands	197.8	66.5	71.8	73.5	54.8
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	196.7	56.3	76.7	58.6	68.0
19	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	195.2	69.9	76.0	76.4	44.7
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	194.9	60.5	77.7	50.5	60.2
21	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	193.3	64.9	74.5	75.5	51.2
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	193.2	63.9	73.3	58.9	54.8
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	193.1	52.8	78.9	54.8	68.9
24	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	192.4	65.8	72.0	76.5	50.0
25	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	191.6	67.5	71.8	69.7	47.4
26	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus United States	189.7	65.2	76.7	48.7	48.7
27	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	187.9	74.2	68.9	51.4	37.1
28	Cornell University Cornell University United States	187.7	54.3	76.7	56.7	62.2
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	187.2	73.0	71.2	50.1	37.1
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	184.2	61.2	72.5	49.4	51.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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