2017 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	New York University New York University	297.7	100.0
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	289.1	91.4
3	University of Chicago University of Chicago	287.5	88.4
4	Harvard University Harvard University	285.4	99.7
5	Columbia University Columbia University	271.2	92.3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	258.2	86.4
7	London School of Economics and Political Science	250.4	92.5
8	Tilburg University Tilburg University	245.1	85.2
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto	241.6	79.8
10	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	240.3	89.9
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	234.5	84.2
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	234.2	74.5
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	229.7	72.7
14	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	227.5	74.0
15	Stanford University Stanford University	226.9	70.1
16	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	226.8	65.8
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	226.0	71.3
18	Cornell University Cornell University	225.2	76.6
19	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	224.7	72.9
20	Duke University Duke University	224.3	66.7
21	London Business School London Business School	217.7	63.2
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	217.7	66.5
23	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	212.2	72.0
24	Erasmus University Erasmus University	212.0	80.8
25	City, University of London City, University of London	211.7	82.9
26	University of Washington University of Washington	211.5	60.3
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	210.6	83.8
28	University of Southern California University of Southern California	209.4	60.5
29	Northwestern University Northwestern University	209.3	64.2
30	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	207.0	81.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.