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	333.5	60.4	60.4	69.2	98.8	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	315.5	54.6	58.2	68.9	88.9	100.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	310.9	66.2	57.2	65.0	100.0	74.5
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	308.8	57.2	55.5	63.4	95.2	88.2
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	293.1	71.9	53.6	64.1	73.1	81.6
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	251.5	90.7	53.8	77.3	91.5	0.0
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	249.8	100.0	52.7	61.2	84.9	0.0
8	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	240.3	57.8	52.3	57.3	61.0	57.7
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	233.2	54.1	72.4	61.5	61.0	33.3
10	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	230.6	69.9	60.6	75.9	84.9	0.0
11	Harvard University Harvard University United States	230.2	35.4	54.0	72.1	79.2	47.1
12	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	222.9	55.5	49.6	57.6	59.1	47.1
13	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	216.8	28.3	58.9	63.8	59.1	57.7
14	Princeton University Princeton University United States	215.4	40.8	65.6	73.3	61.0	33.3
15	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	213.8	41.9	54.6	69.8	45.7	57.7
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	213.1	49.1	62.4	77.2	86.3	0.0
17	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	209.1	44.1	55.3	66.5	96.4	0.0
18	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	208.6	56.4	55.8	64.7	83.5	0.0
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	207.2	82.4	52.9	64.2	59.1	0.0
20	Lund University Lund University Sweden	206.1	33.6	65.2	72.2	45.7	47.1
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	203.1	59.9	54.7	76.2	73.1	0.0
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	202.6	54.3	56.2	64.4	79.2	0.0
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	202.1	49.8	54.2	59.7	52.8	33.3
24	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	201.7	27.6	57.4	59.5	71.5	33.3
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	196.8	54.4	55.3	62.0	74.7	0.0
26	Columbia University Columbia University United States	194.6	35.3	61.4	71.7	83.5	0.0
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	194.5	71.1	47.4	48.0	66.5	0.0
28	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	193.6	50.2	57.7	62.6	73.1	0.0
29	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	193.4	38.4	56.7	50.1	21.6	66.7
30	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	193.2	49.5	50.0	60.7	48.2	33.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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