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	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	297.3	100.0	81.7	78.2	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	270.6	87.1	78.8	75.1	89.7
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	260.1	80.6	79.5	77.3	84.5
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	258.9	81.8	78.0	73.9	84.3
5	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	255.7	86.2	72.5	74.5	82.1
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	254.5	88.0	72.9	57.7	82.1
7	Peking University Peking University China	250.3	84.1	71.4	57.4	83.4
8	Stanford University Stanford University United States	249.5	70.1	90.1	68.6	75.6
9	University of Science and Technology of China China	242.8	76.9	77.6	56.3	77.1
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	240.3	84.5	65.0	54.8	79.9
11	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	239.6	80.0	69.3	54.6	79.4
12	Harvard University Harvard University United States	238.2	72.3	76.5	74.8	74.4
13	Fudan University Fudan University China	231.6	71.6	78.3	61.6	69.3
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	229.7	69.1	73.5	65.3	74.1
15	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	228.9	74.9	71.8	66.2	69.0
16	Rice University Rice University United States	228.8	57.6	91.2	69.5	66.1
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	225.9	66.8	80.7	86.2	61.2
18	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	225.5	80.2	65.2	52.2	69.7
18	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	225.5	62.6	84.8	71.7	63.8
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	222.5	68.3	70.2	89.5	66.1
21	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	220.5	66.8	73.8	65.5	66.7
22	Jilin University Jilin University China	219.2	76.5	63.3	53.9	68.7
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	217.9	62.0	83.0	63.0	60.2
24	Soochow University Soochow University China	216.9	64.5	76.2	56.8	64.9
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	215.2	78.8	66.6	57.5	58.3
26	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	214.7	65.8	69.1	65.5	66.7
27	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	214.2	71.4	67.7	53.6	64.4
28	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	212.7	54.2	86.6	84.7	55.0
29	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	211.6	70.5	65.4	57.8	64.1
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	207.0	62.3	67.5	80.4	61.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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