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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	357.4	77.3
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	251.9	65.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University	243.8	71.0
4	Harvard University Harvard University	239.8	61.9
5	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	236.5	74.1
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	233.4	55.5
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	230.4	68.0
8	Princeton University Princeton University	221.5	49.0
9	University of Southern California University of Southern California	207.0	58.2
10	Weizmann Institute of Science Weizmann Institute of Science	205.3	28.2
11	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	202.8	37.3
12	University of Oslo University of Oslo	201.7	33.5
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto	201.1	60.2
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	200.2	60.7
15	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	198.8	51.3
16	Cornell University Cornell University	196.6	46.5
17	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	194.6	88.7
18	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	194.1	38.9
19	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	191.8	100.0
20	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	170.7	78.4
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	169.2	84.9
22	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	168.7	75.1
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	166.8	74.0
24	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	166.6	68.3
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	163.2	61.9
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven	163.1	68.5
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	162.2	68.5
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	162.0	67.2
29	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	161.5	77.9
30	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	161.4	48.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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