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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	263.2	96.0
2	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	256.0	88.7
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	249.6	100.0
4	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	242.0	80.1
5	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	218.1	83.7
6	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	215.5	89.4
7	Beihang University Beihang University	215.3	89.2
8	Polytechnic University of Catalonia Polytechnic University of Catalonia	211.8	55.4
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	211.1	92.2
10	Southeast University Southeast University	210.3	74.9
11	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	207.6	71.6
12	Jilin University Jilin University	206.4	65.7
13	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	206.3	72.9
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	206.3	73.1
15	Aalborg University Aalborg University	206.2	37.7
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	205.5	68.0
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	203.7	71.2
18	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	203.0	78.3
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	202.1	68.6
20	University of Malaya University of Malaya	200.0	60.5
21	Tianjin University Tianjin University	197.7	73.1
22	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	196.0	67.5
23	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	193.2	76.3
24	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	192.5	58.9
25	Xian Jiao Tong University Xian Jiao Tong University	192.4	73.6
26	University of Oxford University of Oxford	192.2	66.8
27	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	191.5	66.4
28	University of Alberta University of Alberta	190.5	59.6
29	Chongqing University Chongqing University	188.3	63.2
30	Tohoku University Tohoku University	188.1	78.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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