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	Harvard University Harvard University	360.6	100.0
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	271.3	55.1
3	Duke University Duke University	253.3	48.1
4	Cornell University Cornell University	252.7	43.6
5	University of Washington University of Washington	252.4	50.1
6	Rice University Rice University	243.4	34.9
7	Boston University Boston University	231.8	34.2
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	230.2	62.0
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	229.5	69.9
10	Stanford University Stanford University	228.1	66.0
11	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	225.6	35.0
12	Fudan University Fudan University	222.4	48.8
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	222.2	66.5
14	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	211.5	64.9
15	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	205.1	57.7
16	Seoul National University Seoul National University	203.7	63.9
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto	203.2	66.1
18	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	202.3	62.9
19	University College London University College London	200.8	65.2
20	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	200.4	62.0
21	Soochow University Soochow University	196.6	38.9
22	Peking University Peking University	196.5	48.1
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	191.9	53.5
24	Sichuan University Sichuan University	191.7	53.5
25	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	190.9	58.1
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	189.5	53.0
27	Northwestern University Northwestern University	185.2	49.8
28	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	183.7	51.4
29	University of Munich University of Munich	181.9	55.2
30	Utrecht University Utrecht University	181.6	45.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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