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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	300.0	79.1	70.5	62.7	93.3
2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	292.7	78.0	63.3	66.0	91.7
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	287.4	62.0	75.9	64.1	100.0
4	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	284.1	79.8	69.1	66.3	82.1
5	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	278.3	69.2	70.7	70.3	88.1
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	269.1	83.0	64.8	91.7	68.6
7	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	268.4	70.3	66.6	65.1	82.1
8	Erasmus University Erasmus University Netherlands	267.8	82.6	70.1	82.3	67.0
9	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	264.0	75.3	74.2	63.6	71.7
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	262.1	79.9	65.7	72.2	68.1
11	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	261.3	100.0	68.5	71.8	46.6
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	260.8	68.5	65.3	84.3	78.0
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	259.8	79.3	66.1	72.1	67.0
14	INSEAD INSEAD France	257.2	52.8	68.3	93.7	89.7
15	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	253.9	66.7	78.3	63.0	72.2
16	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	251.1	82.7	65.7	75.6	57.7
17	Stanford University Stanford University United States	250.1	63.0	65.5	65.1	77.6
18	New York University New York University United States	247.7	60.1	61.0	72.4	79.9
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	234.9	62.2	61.2	64.1	69.7
20	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	234.6	67.0	68.3	60.6	62.6
21	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	233.4	59.6	74.8	76.3	65.9
22	Columbia University Columbia University United States	231.3	58.4	61.0	63.6	71.2
22	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	231.3	84.7	64.8	79.7	42.6
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	229.1	60.8	63.7	63.6	66.5
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	227.9	67.9	59.1	61.7	60.2
26	Cornell University Cornell University United States	227.8	63.8	62.2	63.2	63.1
27	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	227.1	58.1	62.2	51.1	69.2
28	University of Warwick University of Warwick United Kingdom	223.4	71.8	64.6	79.1	50.4
29	Tilburg University Tilburg University Netherlands	219.5	66.4	62.4	79.0	53.8
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	219.4	49.4	77.1	53.3	67.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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