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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	356.6	89.8
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	337.1	94.3
3	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	335.2	100.0
4	University of Chicago University of Chicago	321.9	83.5
5	Harvard University Harvard University	319.4	89.9
6	Princeton University Princeton University	311.5	72.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University	309.4	72.4
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	289.7	86.4
9	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	285.9	60.6
10	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	282.4	60.6
11	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	276.2	58.8
12	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	275.3	80.5
13	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	269.1	99.2
14	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	268.4	58.9
15	Cornell University Cornell University	254.5	55.0
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	248.3	62.1
17	Nagoya University Nagoya University	239.8	63.5
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	232.7	87.8
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	232.3	77.3
20	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	230.8	41.8
21	Columbia University Columbia University	229.8	55.8
22	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	226.5	51.7
23	University of Munich University of Munich	224.5	59.4
24	Kyoto University Kyoto University	224.2	77.7
25	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	221.8	61.4
26	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	219.0	72.6
27	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	217.7	73.5
28	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	216.9	76.7
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	215.7	67.3
29	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	215.7	46.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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