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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	New York University New York University United States	287.1	100.0	72.3	65.3	94.4
2	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	280.6	83.6	100.0	50.9	100.0
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	279.5	93.5	79.1	59.2	93.8
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	276.3	93.3	71.4	62.2	94.4
5	Columbia University Columbia University United States	264.8	95.5	66.3	63.4	82.1
6	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom	246.6	94.4	55.4	79.2	69.4
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	243.1	84.7	67.7	47.1	77.6
8	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	242.0	91.8	70.7	58.4	63.1
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	235.9	83.2	62.5	61.3	73.6
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	234.8	88.8	60.6	82.8	63.1
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	234.2	88.6	56.9	88.3	64.0
12	Tilburg University Tilburg University Netherlands	229.3	84.7	70.3	90.7	58.1
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	222.3	75.3	64.0	62.2	71.1
14	London Business School London Business School United Kingdom	220.9	63.2	77.0	92.3	78.4
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	219.8	71.1	65.8	58.7	74.4
16	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	218.4	91.3	55.4	72.6	46.6
17	Duke University Duke University United States	216.1	64.0	82.2	45.0	74.4
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	215.5	65.8	76.3	58.3	72.8
19	Stanford University Stanford University United States	215.0	69.6	76.6	55.1	66.8
20	City, University of London City, University of London United Kingdom	214.5	85.3	53.5	83.8	51.5
21	University of Washington University of Washington United States	212.5	64.3	78.3	58.2	71.1
22	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	212.4	65.1	80.2	62.0	68.5
23	Cornell University Cornell University United States	211.6	82.2	57.4	58.4	53.8
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	210.4	66.4	70.0	55.6	70.3
25	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	210.2	78.6	54.0	72.5	58.1
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	210.2	72.3	70.3	55.1	61.1
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	202.2	84.9	42.3	85.4	45.3
28	Boston College Boston College United States	198.7	63.5	73.5	56.5	61.1
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	197.7	67.1	59.2	53.4	62.1
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	197.7	81.6	51.9	82.9	41.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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