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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	368.7	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	352.2	83.4
3	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	350.0	84.3
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	338.9	90.9
5	Columbia University Columbia University	337.2	74.1
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	321.1	80.1
7	Stanford University Stanford University	317.2	70.5
8	University of Washington University of Washington	312.4	71.5
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	308.6	67.1
10	Harvard University Harvard University	303.7	52.5
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	296.8	64.4
12	University of Oxford University of Oxford	294.8	74.9
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	285.0	83.4
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	278.8	60.2
15	Brown University Brown University	276.6	48.3
16	University of Arizona University of Arizona	275.5	71.0
17	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	271.9	49.5
18	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	267.0	90.2
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	254.2	48.4
20	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	253.6	50.6
21	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	250.7	50.3
22	The University of Reading The University of Reading	246.2	42.8
23	University of Bristol University of Bristol	245.8	79.0
24	University of Southern California University of Southern California	245.2	51.6
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	241.5	88.1
26	University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz	241.4	49.0
27	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	240.9	58.7
28	Utrecht University Utrecht University	240.7	76.0
29	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	240.1	63.4
30	Cornell University Cornell University	238.6	45.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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