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	University of Oxford University of Oxford	287.3	96.4
2	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	279.6	95.4
3	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	278.3	95.3
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	278.0	91.1
5	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	275.5	100.0
6	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	269.3	90.1
7	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	263.4	91.1
8	James Cook University James Cook University	261.2	86.8
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	258.1	84.7
10	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	255.0	87.4
11	University of Florida University of Florida	252.9	92.6
12	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	250.3	86.6
13	Cornell University Cornell University	250.1	83.7
14	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	246.6	72.9
15	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	246.0	80.0
16	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	245.0	79.4
17	University of Washington University of Washington	244.9	82.3
18	University of Exeter University of Exeter	241.6	76.1
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	239.5	78.7
20	Duke University Duke University	239.1	71.6
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	238.4	73.3
22	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	237.5	77.8
22	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	237.5	80.1
24	The Australian National University The Australian National University	237.2	77.7
25	Oregon State University Oregon State University	236.9	85.1
26	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	236.8	79.5
27	University of Zurich University of Zurich	236.5	71.4
28	Harvard University Harvard University	235.3	68.8
29	Stanford University Stanford University	234.4	67.8
30	Aarhus University Aarhus University	234.0	77.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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