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.

501 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	343.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	321.7
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	313.8
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	275.9
5	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	274.1
6	Princeton University Princeton University United States	245.3
7	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	222.1
8	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	219.3
9	Harvard University Harvard University United States	213.9
10	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	213.1
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	211.2
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	209.8
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	207.3
14	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	207.1
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	204.2
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	203.7
17	Lund University Lund University Sweden	203.3
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	202.9
19	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	202.4
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	200.8
21	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	199.6
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	198.9
23	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	198.4
24	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	196.2
25	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	194.7
26	New York University New York University United States	193.7
27	Columbia University Columbia University United States	192.3
28	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	191.9
29	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	191.2
30	University College London University College London United Kingdom	190.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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