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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Princeton University Princeton University	349.9	66.7
2	New York University New York University	286.4	60.0
3	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	284.0	100.0
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	282.1	77.7
5	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	277.9	69.1
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	264.3	62.8
7	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	263.3	64.8
8	Stanford University Stanford University	263.2	63.9
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	250.9	62.0
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	248.8	73.3
11	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	242.6	50.6
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	241.3	69.3
13	Stony Brook University Stony Brook University	231.0	44.2
14	University of Chicago University of Chicago	230.9	57.3
15	University of Warwick University of Warwick	229.4	56.4
16	Harvard University Harvard University	227.0	46.0
17	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	225.5	57.8
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	221.2	56.3
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	213.4	55.1
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	210.4	63.8
21	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	208.9	60.2
22	Kyoto University Kyoto University	208.1	68.5
23	Columbia University Columbia University	207.2	56.1
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	205.0	71.8
25	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	204.0	66.5
26	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	200.6	44.0
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto	193.1	61.2
28	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	192.8	96.0
29	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	190.3	62.1
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	188.7	65.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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