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	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	285.5	100.0	68.2	86.6	100.0
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	252.3	76.8	73.6	84.5	85.1
3	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	247.5	78.4	71.4	80.0	81.8
4	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	242.6	88.6	59.7	65.8	81.1
5	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	238.1	78.8	65.1	82.2	77.8
6	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	234.2	66.6	74.9	83.6	76.1
7	Hohai University Hohai University China	232.6	89.6	54.7	73.4	73.6
8	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	229.4	72.9	68.0	75.5	73.4
9	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	228.0	75.9	61.6	78.5	74.9
10	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	227.8	73.9	66.1	81.0	71.6
11	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	225.5	55.8	83.7	90.4	67.9
12	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	223.6	65.4	70.5	80.2	71.6
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	223.0	76.6	58.9	69.9	73.4
14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	216.5	60.5	72.3	88.7	65.9
15	University of Tehran University of Tehran Iran	212.2	76.2	61.8	71.9	59.8
16	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	208.7	62.7	66.3	92.0	61.3
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	208.4	63.7	64.3	71.0	66.1
18	Flinders University Flinders University Australia	206.0	57.7	68.0	84.7	63.5
18	University of Lisbon University of Lisbon Portugal	206.0	66.8	63.1	80.2	60.0
18	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Canada	206.0	54.6	74.7	84.5	59.8
21	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	205.8	58.8	67.0	68.3	66.3
22	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	204.7	53.2	75.7	83.0	59.2
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	204.3	61.3	67.0	85.1	58.9
24	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	203.1	67.6	54.4	63.4	68.4
25	University of Padua University of Padua Italy	202.7	52.2	73.8	84.6	59.8
26	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	201.3	69.3	55.3	71.7	62.4
27	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	201.2	67.5	58.4	70.1	61.3
28	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	197.6	56.7	68.7	86.2	55.0
29	Tongji University Tongji University China	197.2	71.8	57.3	57.0	56.7
30	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	196.4	58.7	62.8	92.3	56.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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