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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	352.6	76.8
2	Stanford University Stanford University	340.7	57.3
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	337.5	71.4
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	315.2	47.7
5	Harvard University Harvard University	305.1	59.5
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University	290.6	60.9
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	275.8	69.9
8	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	273.5	65.4
9	Kyoto University Kyoto University	270.6	87.3
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago	268.3	68.5
11	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	267.7	59.5
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	258.0	83.5
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	249.3	67.0
14	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	248.4	81.6
15	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	244.4	51.5
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	241.0	50.5
17	Peking University Peking University	237.4	86.3
18	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	235.8	47.2
19	Columbia University Columbia University	234.8	40.8
20	University of Science and Technology of China	233.1	84.0
21	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	230.7	42.6
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	230.6	90.3
23	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	229.6	48.7
24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	228.4	60.6
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	227.4	75.0
26	Osaka University Osaka University	226.0	76.4
27	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	225.9	100.0
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	224.5	56.5
29	University of Toronto University of Toronto	223.4	57.1
30	Cornell University Cornell University	221.2	48.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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