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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	287.4	100.0	72.7	73.1	100.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	248.1	77.0	77.3	89.2	76.0
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	244.1	82.0	69.9	74.3	77.3
4	Durham University Durham University United Kingdom	236.2	70.5	77.9	76.0	72.6
5	University College London University College London United Kingdom	228.6	77.4	70.6	67.6	67.1
6	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	228.2	64.7	76.1	93.7	68.7
7	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	226.4	78.6	69.9	64.2	65.0
8	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	223.7	61.7	78.3	84.3	66.9
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	220.5	67.0	71.3	74.8	67.3
9	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	220.5	69.1	69.7	87.8	64.1
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	218.4	63.7	71.0	94.5	64.8
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	216.4	68.0	68.6	70.9	65.6
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	216.0	66.8	72.3	73.8	62.1
14	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	215.7	69.4	66.6	72.7	65.2
15	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	214.2	63.3	70.2	96.3	61.5
16	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	213.9	62.3	72.5	73.5	64.3
17	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	213.7	57.3	77.5	89.5	61.0
18	University of Washington University of Washington United States	211.3	61.2	76.3	71.4	59.6
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	210.7	67.7	66.6	69.1	62.6
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	209.0	61.8	68.6	79.7	62.6
21	Columbia University Columbia University United States	206.5	59.1	72.5	80.8	58.7
22	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	206.4	65.9	70.4	61.4	57.7
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	206.4	68.3	64.0	68.3	60.6
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	205.6	55.5	74.4	90.6	57.5
25	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	205.5	58.4	74.6	72.5	58.0
26	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	205.4	61.9	70.8	80.7	56.5
27	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	204.4	57.4	68.4	95.9	59.4
28	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield United Kingdom	204.2	63.4	66.8	68.7	60.3
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	204.0	71.8	62.3	68.4	56.3
30	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	203.7	61.0	69.7	74.1	58.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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