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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	261.1	90.6
2	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	237.6	100.0
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	234.4	73.0
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	226.9	47.1
5	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	219.4	55.8
6	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	218.6	59.9
7	Xidian University Xidian University	217.9	96.1
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	214.3	59.4
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	211.9	54.7
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	206.8	70.6
11	Southeast University Southeast University	203.0	76.7
11	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	203.0	89.5
13	University of Southampton University of Southampton	200.5	46.4
14	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	198.5	59.4
15	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	197.9	67.2
16	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	197.0	49.4
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	196.5	61.7
18	CentraleSupelec CentraleSupelec	193.1	43.0
19	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	191.5	57.7
20	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	190.5	53.4
21	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	183.3	54.7
22	Singapore University of Technology and Design	182.7	33.1
23	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	182.4	41.5
24	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia	180.6	55.7
25	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	180.3	51.2
26	University of Southern California University of Southern California	179.1	38.8
27	National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University	177.8	57.9
28	Princeton University Princeton University	177.5	35.9
29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	175.2	44.0
30	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	175.1	34.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.