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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	274.9	100.0	63.3	75.8	96.5
2	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	267.5	79.9	77.2	87.8	92.8
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	265.5	86.3	64.8	72.0	100.0
4	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	245.6	72.6	69.1	77.2	88.4
5	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	241.8	61.8	79.3	84.7	83.8
6	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	237.4	51.1	84.2	77.4	86.7
7	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	236.7	78.7	67.9	77.8	74.5
8	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	234.7	62.8	72.9	84.6	82.1
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	230.9	73.8	60.2	65.8	83.8
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	228.7	69.3	71.4	84.7	71.1
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	228.0	74.9	56.0	60.1	85.0
12	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	224.9	74.3	59.6	56.8	79.6
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	224.4	67.8	65.3	67.7	77.7
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	223.2	74.0	70.0	85.1	62.1
15	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	222.5	64.6	71.8	82.3	69.7
16	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	220.9	51.9	79.1	67.7	76.4
17	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	220.4	50.3	80.1	81.3	73.8
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	218.6	44.2	92.0	97.7	62.9
19	Tongji University Tongji University China	218.5	75.7	57.7	88.0	67.5
20	Monash University Monash University Australia	218.4	80.0	64.8	73.7	58.9
21	University College London University College London United Kingdom	214.7	67.2	63.5	78.6	68.2
22	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Australia	212.4	69.5	67.7	65.2	62.1
23	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	211.6	66.4	70.0	85.5	58.0
24	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	209.9	57.0	70.0	80.6	66.7
25	Southeast University Southeast University China	205.5	71.1	63.5	91.1	52.7
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	204.8	71.6	59.6	73.4	58.9
27	University of Florida University of Florida United States	199.6	56.8	61.8	79.3	65.2
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	198.6	63.4	58.3	58.3	65.2
29	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	196.7	76.4	56.9	58.5	51.7
30	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	195.8	65.7	56.0	67.6	60.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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