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	Central South University Central South University China	266.0	100.0	58.3	38.4	100.0
2	University of Science and Technology Beijing China	257.6	99.7	56.1	40.7	93.5
3	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	240.1	77.7	60.0	40.6	94.2
4	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	233.5	76.9	60.0	34.1	89.9
5	Tohoku University Tohoku University Japan	229.2	73.1	60.0	63.5	83.4
6	Northeastern University(China) Northeastern University(China) China	216.4	79.0	55.7	49.4	71.7
7	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	210.0	52.0	70.9	65.8	74.0
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	206.8	59.8	62.4	54.1	73.8
9	Monash University Monash University Australia	204.1	40.0	89.3	82.0	58.4
10	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville United States	200.7	34.9	94.4	86.8	54.0
11	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	195.0	62.9	56.6	44.7	66.6
12	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	190.4	60.1	62.4	38.9	60.1
13	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	188.4	40.6	70.9	87.0	59.6
14	Beihang University Beihang University China	183.3	52.6	59.6	42.3	62.7
15	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University China	182.0	49.9	62.4	42.1	61.3
16	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	181.3	37.6	73.9	80.0	53.7
17	RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University Germany	178.8	38.2	78.2	75.0	47.5
18	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	178.4	44.2	68.8	39.3	57.6
19	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	178.3	33.2	82.5	77.2	47.2
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	178.3	27.6	93.4	79.0	41.6
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	178.1	46.9	64.7	38.2	58.9
22	Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Science India	176.6	36.4	74.6	62.5	53.0
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	175.7	24.8	94.9	97.7	36.5
24	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	175.5	25.6	92.8	96.1	37.9
25	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	174.4	35.4	77.5	68.8	47.7
26	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	174.0	29.1	87.4	67.8	44.0
27	University of Tehran University of Tehran Iran	173.8	37.2	73.3	50.3	53.2
28	Osaka University Osaka University Japan	173.3	51.0	56.1	53.4	55.4
29	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	172.7	34.3	75.3	86.0	46.0
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	172.5	29.1	84.8	80.6	42.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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