2017 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as 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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	333.5	60.4
2	Stanford University Stanford University	315.5	54.6
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	310.9	66.2
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	308.8	57.2
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	293.1	71.9
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	251.5	90.7
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	249.8	100.0
8	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	240.3	57.8
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	233.2	54.1
10	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	230.6	69.9
11	Harvard University Harvard University	230.2	35.4
12	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	222.9	55.5
13	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	216.8	28.3
14	Princeton University Princeton University	215.4	40.8
15	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	213.8	41.9
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	213.1	49.1
17	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	209.1	44.1
18	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	208.6	56.4
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	207.2	82.4
20	Lund University Lund University	206.1	33.6
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	203.1	59.9
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	202.6	54.3
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	202.1	49.8
24	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	201.7	27.6
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	196.8	54.4
26	Columbia University Columbia University	194.6	35.3
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	194.5	71.1
28	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	193.6	50.2
29	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	193.4	38.4
30	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	193.2	49.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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