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	348.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	277.3
3	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	268.4
4	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	266.9
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	262.2
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	244.2
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	238.2
8	Harvard University Harvard University United States	227.7
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	220.1
10	Princeton University Princeton University United States	215.1
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	213.3
12	Cornell University Cornell University United States	212.8
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	212.2
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	206.4
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	205.3
16	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	202.6
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	201.0
18	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	198.2
19	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	193.7
20	University College London University College London United Kingdom	192.6
21	Weizmann Institute of Science Weizmann Institute of Science Israel	192.3
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	191.1
23	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	189.5
24	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	187.5
25	Columbia University Columbia University United States	186.5
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	186.0
27	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	184.3
28	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	183.9
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	183.2
30	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	183.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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