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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	332.6	66.1	67.9	63.7	100.0	85.9
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	314.5	54.6	55.8	62.2	92.5	99.2
3	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	301.9	40.8	70.0	77.5	80.5	95.2
4	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	299.3	57.0	63.1	62.1	87.2	79.5
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	295.5	51.5	64.7	68.5	77.7	87.9
6	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine United Kingdom	286.7	50.0	64.7	85.2	74.0	81.0
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	279.8	56.3	72.2	77.7	81.3	54.5
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	278.4	100.0	81.5	61.0	84.7	0.0
9	Stanford University Stanford University United States	270.7	37.9	61.8	58.3	59.3	100.0
10	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia	265.1	48.1	64.5	86.3	81.3	54.0
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	251.8	32.6	64.7	62.8	53.8	88.2
12	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	251.6	49.4	69.8	80.3	85.8	30.6
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	245.6	43.5	61.2	66.4	56.1	71.5
14	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	241.3	38.4	57.7	74.3	69.1	61.2
15	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	239.4	36.8	67.3	90.5	59.9	57.3
16	Harvard University Harvard University United States	237.7	35.7	88.5	64.5	47.6	53.0
17	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	234.8	69.1	76.1	84.5	72.7	0.0
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	233.4	37.1	73.4	52.4	59.3	53.0
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	229.6	46.4	65.3	68.8	71.8	32.3
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	227.7	81.3	65.5	60.8	68.7	0.0
21	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	225.6	37.2	61.6	68.1	51.4	61.7
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	223.6	38.8	59.7	47.2	54.4	61.2
23	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	223.4	35.3	60.1	75.2	42.0	71.0
24	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	218.2	57.6	81.9	54.8	67.8	0.0
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	217.8	43.7	54.6	58.0	41.2	66.7
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	216.8	79.0	56.3	53.3	55.5	15.3
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	216.2	76.9	65.1	58.9	62.4	0.0
28	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	215.8	57.8	62.9	63.4	82.4	0.0
29	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	213.6	36.3	55.8	81.7	61.9	43.3
30	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	209.2	32.9	62.7	70.0	48.9	50.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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