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 Cambridge University of Cambridge	297.6	54.4
2	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	265.6	29.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University	265.1	39.2
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	260.3	49.4
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University	247.5	34.5
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	245.5	24.8
7	Harvard University Harvard University	236.4	20.3
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	234.6	87.8
9	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University	234.3	92.4
10	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	231.0	55.8
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	230.0	63.5
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	228.6	100.0
13	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	228.2	41.4
14	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	219.0	43.4
15	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	213.5	51.8
16	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	209.2	55.3
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	209.1	39.0
18	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	205.9	51.7
19	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	205.5	65.9
20	Princeton University Princeton University	203.1	30.9
21	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	199.0	67.5
22	University of Science and Technology of China	198.8	47.4
23	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	194.8	67.5
24	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	190.9	29.5
25	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	186.5	45.3
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	185.3	80.9
27	Cornell University Cornell University	183.2	28.4
28	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	182.7	54.1
29	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	182.5	58.2
30	Beihang University Beihang University	181.2	74.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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