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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	317.1	100.0	63.0	72.9	100.0	39.5
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	294.6	55.8	76.0	72.0	73.4	75.0
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	292.4	61.7	58.7	82.9	55.4	100.0
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	273.6	56.6	61.3	68.0	55.5	86.6
5	University of Washington University of Washington United States	250.8	63.6	56.5	65.5	49.2	68.5
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	247.7	59.1	61.4	66.6	50.1	63.7
7	University College London University College London United Kingdom	236.7	59.2	53.8	82.3	45.9	61.2
8	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University United States	227.8	28.3	64.6	69.9	38.1	82.9
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	222.2	62.8	55.5	65.6	47.4	43.3
10	Yale University Yale University United States	216.4	54.3	55.7	67.2	43.0	50.0
11	Columbia University Columbia University United States	215.1	49.0	56.3	68.2	44.6	51.5
12	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas United States	211.0	39.4	54.3	61.5	36.6	68.5
13	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	202.4	52.7	55.9	61.7	38.1	43.3
14	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	201.6	49.9	54.7	87.1	44.2	35.4
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	200.7	56.3	56.5	66.5	39.3	35.4
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	199.3	55.7	60.3	66.6	34.7	35.4
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	187.9	64.1	56.9	84.2	50.1	0.0
18	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School United States	185.2	31.8	58.2	65.2	29.1	53.0
19	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	185.1	46.7	52.7	85.2	25.4	43.3
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	183.1	65.3	52.1	78.7	50.0	0.0
21	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	179.0	40.5	56.8	83.5	40.0	25.0
22	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University United States	176.5	47.0	52.0	59.9	34.9	30.6
23	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	175.5	53.9	42.2	58.2	24.5	43.3
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	173.7	43.5	48.4	62.9	16.2	53.0
25	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU Norway	172.6	24.6	52.4	80.2	18.4	61.2
26	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	171.9	61.9	53.4	84.0	39.8	0.0
27	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston United States	171.7	34.6	55.9	68.8	32.1	35.4
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	171.5	27.4	61.4	63.6	23.2	46.8
29	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	171.1	59.7	55.1	63.1	43.7	0.0
30	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	170.5	40.1	50.6	79.7	26.3	37.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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