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	373.6	56.8	99.8	84.7	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	354.3	63.8	77.3	75.3	99.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	345.5	55.5	89.3	72.6	93.1
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	343.0	76.9	72.1	75.5	89.4
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	330.3	52.3	91.3	88.0	84.5
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	324.2	55.9	77.1	72.0	88.4
7	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	315.0	72.1	73.5	78.5	76.8
8	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	312.1	69.0	69.0	71.3	79.9
9	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine United Kingdom	310.2	64.7	73.3	80.3	78.1
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	299.2	35.4	84.4	74.3	82.2
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	292.3	29.2	100.0	78.6	73.7
12	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	291.0	63.5	65.8	52.7	75.6
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	284.9	100.0	69.7	59.1	51.6
14	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	284.3	36.9	86.2	56.7	75.0
15	University of Science and Technology of China China	276.4	78.9	70.9	55.7	57.7
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	271.7	61.0	79.1	72.7	58.6
17	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	269.9	26.9	87.8	86.4	69.0
18	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	267.5	61.2	65.8	55.7	64.7
19	University of Washington University of Washington United States	267.2	34.4	93.0	81.9	61.7
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	265.3	61.5	73.3	58.9	59.4
21	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany	264.5	35.0	74.2	79.9	69.7
22	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	264.0	39.9	69.5	62.9	71.0
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	260.9	65.8	76.0	52.4	54.3
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	260.0	44.1	83.8	82.7	57.7
25	Fudan University Fudan University China	258.6	48.1	78.6	65.6	59.4
26	Peking University Peking University China	257.2	58.4	73.3	58.5	56.9
27	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	257.1	51.1	70.5	76.2	60.2
28	Monash University Monash University Australia	256.4	45.6	77.5	81.0	58.6
29	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	255.6	76.4	68.8	54.6	49.8
30	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	253.7	51.0	74.4	64.0	57.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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