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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	290.0	100.0	68.1	59.1	100.0
2	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	258.0	90.2	74.9	65.6	78.8
3	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	227.7	73.1	70.1	90.6	73.9
4	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	221.8	81.0	52.2	63.7	67.8
5	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	221.1	74.4	55.3	91.5	72.7
6	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	219.9	71.2	82.0	86.4	63.4
7	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	213.3	73.6	75.6	58.0	59.2
8	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	212.3	73.4	75.8	51.5	59.2
8	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University United States	212.3	65.1	84.3	43.1	68.2
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	211.3	76.2	64.1	47.9	60.2
11	University of Granada University of Granada Spain	207.9	78.6	54.5	55.0	57.2
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	206.1	74.9	61.5	53.0	57.7
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	201.3	65.1	58.7	100.0	64.3
14	University of Washington University of Washington United States	201.1	73.6	57.0	44.7	57.7
15	Georgia State University Georgia State University United States	200.7	62.7	75.8	80.7	60.6
16	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	198.8	67.1	78.4	64.5	52.5
17	Leiden University Leiden University Netherlands	198.6	59.6	94.1	69.7	55.2
18	University of Antwerp University of Antwerp Belgium	198.4	65.1	56.8	76.3	64.8
19	University of Wolverhampton University of Wolverhampton United Kingdom	198.1	61.5	100.0	74.0	48.5
20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	197.2	82.4	45.3	48.2	46.1
21	McGill University McGill University Canada	194.3	67.7	60.8	76.9	54.7
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	193.9	71.0	55.3	56.8	54.1
23	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University Taiwan, China	193.4	65.4	48.0	65.3	64.8
24	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	193.2	63.9	76.2	78.4	51.4
25	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	193.1	72.6	57.5	69.7	48.5
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	191.9	63.6	71.1	57.3	55.2
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	191.4	63.9	59.2	72.0	58.7
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	191.2	58.9	69.7	77.2	60.2
29	Columbia University Columbia University United States	190.0	61.2	72.8	45.9	57.2
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	189.1	73.9	64.1	46.5	41.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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