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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	332.6	66.1
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	314.5	54.6
3	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	301.9	40.8
4	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	299.3	57.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	295.5	51.5
6	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	286.7	50.0
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	279.8	56.3
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	278.4	100.0
9	Stanford University Stanford University	270.7	37.9
10	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	265.1	48.1
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	251.8	32.6
12	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	251.6	49.4
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto	245.6	43.5
14	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	241.3	38.4
15	The Australian National University The Australian National University	239.4	36.8
16	Harvard University Harvard University	237.7	35.7
17	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	234.8	69.1
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	233.4	37.1
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	229.6	46.4
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	227.7	81.3
21	University of Southern California University of Southern California	225.6	37.2
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	223.6	38.8
23	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	223.4	35.3
24	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	218.2	57.6
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	217.8	43.7
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	216.8	79.0
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	216.2	76.9
28	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	215.8	57.8
29	University of Groningen University of Groningen	213.6	36.3
30	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	209.2	32.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.