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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	290.3	100.0	77.2	65.4	100.0
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	225.9	54.7	87.0	79.1	68.4
3	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	224.2	66.5	71.9	72.5	71.3
4	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	219.8	64.3	76.9	63.8	65.9
5	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	211.0	57.1	79.7	73.5	59.6
6	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	209.4	43.1	93.0	83.9	56.5
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	208.7	56.4	77.7	61.4	62.3
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	204.4	53.6	77.7	61.5	60.8
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	204.3	44.5	88.5	79.3	55.5
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	200.9	57.9	73.7	54.9	58.3
11	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	198.6	40.6	88.0	81.9	53.6
12	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University Germany	198.5	55.4	78.0	67.3	51.5
13	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	198.4	47.5	79.1	67.6	58.3
14	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine United Kingdom	198.0	41.7	90.6	79.4	49.8
15	Duke University Duke University United States	195.6	53.1	76.0	56.1	55.2
16	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	192.0	49.2	83.4	50.2	49.3
17	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	188.6	50.9	74.0	57.1	52.2
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	188.0	43.6	78.0	76.8	50.9
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	186.8	47.2	78.0	58.9	49.8
20	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	186.7	36.5	90.4	81.5	43.5
21	New York University New York University United States	185.7	43.6	82.1	60.1	48.1
22	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich Germany	184.7	41.8	83.9	73.5	44.3
23	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam Netherlands	184.2	36.7	86.7	74.5	45.8
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	184.0	52.3	73.4	48.4	48.5
25	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	183.4	45.8	74.6	64.2	50.1
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	183.2	39.7	79.7	86.2	46.6
27	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin Germany	182.7	45.6	74.6	64.4	49.6
28	Erasmus University Erasmus University Netherlands	182.1	40.9	79.4	76.6	46.4
29	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna Austria	180.8	40.8	78.0	80.7	45.8
30	Maastricht University Maastricht University Netherlands	180.2	35.6	81.6	85.6	46.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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