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	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	291.0	96.7	80.5	72.5	99.3
2	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	286.3	100.0	75.2	55.5	100.0
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	271.6	95.4	74.2	49.2	92.1
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	256.2	75.1	85.8	49.3	85.4
5	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	255.3	79.0	78.5	69.5	83.9
6	University of Campinas University of Campinas Brazil	252.6	84.5	74.8	38.8	85.4
7	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	252.5	87.5	70.7	50.8	84.1
8	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	244.7	78.8	79.3	48.2	76.8
9	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	243.8	80.7	75.8	73.5	72.6
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	243.1	72.7	74.5	74.3	81.0
11	University of Porto University of Porto Portugal	239.0	69.2	77.0	60.1	80.8
12	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst United States	238.4	56.5	97.7	76.5	68.9
13	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	235.9	68.4	79.1	64.9	75.5
14	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	234.7	75.3	81.4	68.0	64.4
15	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	233.2	67.8	82.2	47.2	73.7
16	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain	222.7	63.6	78.5	53.5	70.0
17	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	220.7	64.5	84.7	71.0	57.2
18	China Medical University (Taiwan) China Medical University (Taiwan) Taiwan, China	220.1	59.9	78.2	41.8	73.7
19	University of Bologna University of Bologna Italy	218.8	63.7	73.6	68.9	67.7
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	218.0	54.8	81.6	79.3	65.7
21	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	217.1	56.1	81.1	57.5	68.5
22	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	217.0	67.8	74.8	58.4	62.7
23	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	216.7	64.4	69.1	41.0	75.0
24	Nanchang University Nanchang University China	216.6	55.0	89.0	60.4	60.6
25	University Putra Malaysia University Putra Malaysia Malaysia	214.9	80.1	60.1	60.3	62.7
26	Cornell University Cornell University United States	211.9	71.2	78.2	62.1	50.1
27	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	211.7	58.4	75.5	62.7	65.3
28	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich Germany	211.4	62.3	72.6	61.5	64.2
29	University College Cork University College Cork Ireland	207.4	59.7	76.1	64.6	58.7
30	University of Granada University of Granada Spain	204.4	52.0	81.1	60.1	59.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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