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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	287.3	96.4	73.7	86.3	100.0
2	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier France	279.6	95.4	68.1	86.1	99.0
3	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	278.3	95.3	71.8	75.3	96.2
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	278.0	91.1	78.3	69.2	94.8
5	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	275.5	100.0	69.0	61.3	94.3
6	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	269.3	90.1	74.3	80.9	88.7
7	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	263.4	91.1	76.7	85.7	78.4
8	James Cook University James Cook University Australia	261.2	86.8	76.9	76.2	82.2
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	258.1	84.7	70.9	82.6	85.9
10	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden	255.0	87.4	73.9	82.6	77.2
11	University of Florida University of Florida United States	252.9	92.6	65.3	67.4	81.4
12	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki Finland	250.3	86.6	69.6	79.7	78.2
13	Cornell University Cornell University United States	250.1	83.7	68.5	66.2	84.6
14	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine United Kingdom	246.6	72.9	75.7	86.9	80.6
15	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	246.0	80.0	74.5	91.0	73.3
16	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	245.0	79.4	74.3	69.4	77.5
17	University of Washington University of Washington United States	244.9	82.3	70.7	63.8	79.1
18	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	241.6	76.1	76.1	80.2	73.3
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	239.5	78.7	70.1	61.2	78.5
20	Duke University Duke University United States	239.1	71.6	78.7	71.5	74.6
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	238.4	73.3	78.3	85.1	69.7
22	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	237.5	77.8	72.4	67.2	73.8
22	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	237.5	80.1	70.3	75.9	71.9
24	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	237.2	77.7	70.3	69.1	75.4
25	Oregon State University Oregon State University United States	236.9	85.1	68.3	60.6	71.4
26	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 France	236.8	79.5	67.9	83.5	72.7
27	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	236.5	71.4	73.7	91.0	73.2
28	Harvard University Harvard University United States	235.3	68.8	76.1	77.4	74.9
29	Stanford University Stanford University United States	234.4	67.8	81.3	72.3	70.8
30	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	234.0	77.7	70.5	87.2	68.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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