2017 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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	352.6	76.8	88.8	68.2	100.0	73.3
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	340.7	57.3	99.3	67.2	76.5	94.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	337.5	71.4	88.6	67.1	84.3	79.8
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	315.2	47.7	85.9	62.2	69.0	100.0
5	Harvard University Harvard University United States	305.1	59.5	81.9	70.3	77.4	72.3
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	290.6	60.9	87.0	64.0	87.3	42.6
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	275.8	69.9	71.3	78.1	72.6	46.5
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	273.5	65.4	80.8	82.9	73.8	36.9
9	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	270.6	87.3	63.4	49.4	95.0	15.1
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	268.3	68.5	79.4	63.4	75.2	32.6
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	267.7	59.5	85.1	61.1	65.7	45.2
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	258.0	83.5	91.4	77.5	67.6	0.0
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	249.3	67.0	80.5	77.0	71.3	15.1
14	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	248.4	81.6	65.9	50.2	90.9	0.0
15	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	244.4	51.5	71.1	65.4	56.5	52.2
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	241.0	50.5	90.8	69.3	66.4	19.5
17	Peking University Peking University China	237.4	86.3	72.8	48.4	68.6	0.0
18	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	235.8	47.2	87.0	70.8	59.9	27.5
19	Columbia University Columbia University United States	234.8	40.8	78.3	64.8	55.1	47.7
20	University of Science and Technology of China China	233.1	84.0	76.9	48.7	62.5	0.0
21	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	230.7	42.6	80.1	61.1	56.8	38.9
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	230.6	90.3	76.4	47.0	54.5	0.0
23	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	229.6	48.7	78.1	63.3	60.0	30.2
24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	228.4	60.6	91.6	84.5	59.3	0.0
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	227.4	75.0	82.5	74.4	54.9	0.0
26	Osaka University Osaka University Japan	226.0	76.4	61.9	55.4	76.6	0.0
27	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	225.9	100.0	70.1	46.1	46.6	0.0
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	224.5	56.5	75.5	60.4	68.2	12.3
29	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	223.4	57.1	72.8	67.2	60.5	19.5
30	Cornell University Cornell University United States	221.2	48.9	76.0	68.7	56.4	26.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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