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	University of Oxford University of Oxford	287.4	100.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University	248.1	77.0
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	244.1	82.0
4	Durham University Durham University	236.2	70.5
5	University College London University College London	228.6	77.4
6	Stockholm University Stockholm University	228.2	64.7
7	The Australian National University The Australian National University	226.4	78.6
8	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	223.7	61.7
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	220.5	67.0
9	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	220.5	69.1
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	218.4	63.7
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	216.4	68.0
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	216.0	66.8
14	University of Leeds University of Leeds	215.7	69.4
15	University of Bern University of Bern	214.2	63.3
16	University of Exeter University of Exeter	213.9	62.3
17	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	213.7	57.3
18	University of Washington University of Washington	211.3	61.2
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	210.7	67.7
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton	209.0	61.8
21	Columbia University Columbia University	206.5	59.1
22	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	206.4	65.9
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	206.4	68.3
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich	205.6	55.5
25	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	205.5	58.4
26	University of Bristol University of Bristol	205.4	61.9
27	Aarhus University Aarhus University	204.4	57.4
28	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	204.2	63.4
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	204.0	71.8
30	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	203.7	61.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.