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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	263.2	96.0	64.4	61.5	90.5
2	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	256.0	88.7	56.1	55.8	100.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	249.6	100.0	51.3	49.5	88.4
4	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	242.0	80.1	57.9	80.2	87.9
5	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	218.1	83.7	49.5	41.3	76.7
6	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	215.5	89.4	47.8	59.8	66.3
7	Beihang University Beihang University China	215.3	89.2	49.7	43.6	67.7
8	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia Spain	211.8	55.4	75.4	75.7	65.9
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	211.1	92.2	55.5	76.9	48.0
10	Southeast University Southeast University China	210.3	74.9	55.7	55.3	68.6
11	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Taiwan, China	207.6	71.6	49.2	40.5	78.6
12	Jilin University Jilin University China	206.4	65.7	58.5	30.4	76.1
13	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	206.3	72.9	50.4	51.5	72.7
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	206.3	73.1	59.1	79.8	58.2
15	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	206.2	37.7	100.0	89.8	50.5
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	205.5	68.0	57.3	76.6	64.9
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	203.7	71.2	54.0	78.8	62.8
18	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	203.0	78.3	45.5	51.7	68.8
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	202.1	68.6	51.3	49.4	72.3
20	University of Malaya University of Malaya Malaysia	200.0	60.5	60.3	73.7	64.5
21	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	197.7	73.1	50.9	45.4	64.7
22	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	196.0	67.5	45.8	50.9	72.5
23	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	193.2	76.3	53.3	71.2	49.3
24	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	192.5	58.9	55.7	51.9	67.5
25	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University China	192.4	73.6	44.2	43.2	65.9
26	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	192.2	66.8	57.1	85.6	51.1
27	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine United Kingdom	191.5	66.4	56.3	83.7	52.0
28	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	190.5	59.6	57.5	68.2	59.7
29	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	188.3	63.2	50.4	49.9	64.7
30	Tohoku University Tohoku University Japan	188.1	78.5	43.2	64.2	53.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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