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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	261.1	90.6	57.7	63.4	100.0
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China	237.6	100.0	47.1	58.4	78.9
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	234.4	73.0	58.1	79.1	87.5
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	226.9	47.1	99.6	70.1	66.2
5	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	219.4	55.8	67.6	78.3	80.4
6	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	218.6	59.9	61.7	82.4	80.5
7	Xidian University Xidian University China	217.9	96.1	42.3	51.1	69.3
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	214.3	59.4	65.6	69.7	75.3
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	211.9	54.7	74.9	76.5	67.1
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	206.8	70.6	47.3	56.5	77.6
11	Southeast University Southeast University China	203.0	76.7	50.4	58.4	64.1
11	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	203.0	89.5	45.8	59.1	56.0
13	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	200.5	46.4	65.3	73.9	74.0
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	198.5	59.4	57.2	72.7	67.4
15	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	197.9	67.2	47.9	50.2	72.7
16	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	197.0	49.4	61.5	67.1	72.7
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	196.5	61.7	56.5	70.7	64.1
18	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec France	193.1	43.0	77.0	84.2	56.2
19	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	191.5	57.7	55.0	58.9	67.1
20	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	190.5	53.4	55.9	84.1	64.3
21	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	183.3	54.7	48.8	47.4	70.4
22	Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore	182.7	33.1	80.5	93.2	50.4
23	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	182.4	41.5	63.0	74.8	63.0
24	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia Spain	180.6	55.7	51.6	73.9	58.5
25	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	180.3	51.2	53.0	73.3	61.5
26	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	179.1	38.8	68.7	76.1	56.4
27	National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University Taiwan, China	177.8	57.9	40.3	39.9	71.6
28	Princeton University Princeton University United States	177.5	35.9	70.6	85.0	54.0
29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	175.2	44.0	53.3	63.2	65.3
30	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	175.1	34.6	76.0	79.6	48.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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