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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	314.5	81.2	83.3	66.3	96.3
2	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	286.5	62.9	71.5	64.0	100.0
3	Erasmus University Erasmus University Netherlands	281.8	86.2	77.9	85.1	70.1
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	279.9	100.0	71.3	61.1	58.8
5	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	274.8	80.6	77.3	63.1	72.6
5	Tilburg University Tilburg University Netherlands	274.8	74.4	71.3	79.9	79.8
7	Columbia University Columbia University United States	268.9	70.2	68.4	64.1	82.0
8	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	257.6	71.9	79.5	68.5	68.8
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	254.8	62.8	76.5	62.3	77.5
10	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	254.2	55.6	78.5	85.8	82.0
11	Stanford University Stanford University United States	253.8	63.7	78.3	64.9	75.1
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	251.6	72.0	76.5	61.8	66.1
13	Duke University Duke University United States	248.0	53.8	82.4	64.1	79.8
14	Cornell University Cornell University United States	244.7	69.8	76.5	69.3	63.2
15	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	243.9	70.0	75.5	62.1	63.2
16	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	242.2	74.1	77.7	64.0	57.2
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	241.0	65.0	72.8	80.6	66.1
18	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	235.9	53.8	90.7	86.3	67.4
19	University of Florida University of Florida United States	231.7	55.6	60.9	53.3	75.1
20	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	230.8	59.7	77.1	57.3	64.7
21	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	227.9	68.7	67.2	78.7	55.6
22	New York University New York University United States	227.6	56.4	66.3	67.3	68.8
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	225.7	47.7	68.6	73.1	75.1
24	Georgia State University Georgia State University United States	223.8	65.9	74.3	69.8	53.9
25	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	221.3	65.6	72.1	60.1	53.9
26	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	221.2	59.5	89.8	60.7	53.9
27	University of South Carolina - Columbia University of South Carolina - Columbia United States	220.5	53.8	77.7	59.8	63.2
28	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus United States	216.6	47.3	67.2	50.2	71.4
29	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	216.4	44.8	82.6	87.9	66.1
30	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	215.2	63.8	80.5	63.1	48.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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