2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began publishing the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009. Building on this foundation, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was introduced in 2017 with an enhanced methodology.The 2024 edition of GRAS evaluates universities in 55 subjects across five broad fields: Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Among more than 5,000 universities worldwide, over 1,900 institutions from 96 countries and regions are presented.GRAS relies on a comprehensive set of objective academic indicators and independent third-party data to assess performance at the subject level. The evaluation spans five major dimensions: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration.The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	260.5	87.0
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	240.7	100.0
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	230.5	68.5
4	Xidian University Xidian University	220.8	92.7
5	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	217.9	43.9
6	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	216.1	53.2
7	Southeast University Southeast University	215.8	76.7
8	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	212.6	54.2
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	211.7	53.3
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	210.0	69.7
11	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	209.6	88.2
12	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	205.7	59.9
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	199.2	53.3
14	University of Southampton University of Southampton	199.0	47.4
15	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	197.2	58.1
16	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	195.2	46.7
17	Singapore University of Technology and Design	188.4	36.3
18	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec	187.7	40.5
19	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	186.7	51.2
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	186.5	61.7
21	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	186.1	53.7
22	Princeton University Princeton University	180.9	33.8
23	University of Science and Technology of China	178.5	49.3
24	Linkoping University Linkoping University	178.5	28.3
25	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	174.9	58.7
26	University College London University College London	174.8	41.3
27	Peking University Peking University	174.6	46.2
28	Aalto University Aalto University	172.6	49.1
29	University of Houston University of Houston	172.5	34.8
30	The Australian National University The Australian National University	171.5	31.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.