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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	307.4	56.5
2	Stanford University Stanford University	265.2	43.5
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	263.6	29.5
4	Tianjin University Tianjin University	261.5	99.9
5	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	259.8	100.0
6	East China University of Science and Technology	253.6	94.8
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	252.9	51.5
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	246.3	99.0
9	Princeton University Princeton University	245.6	42.9
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	240.5	47.9
11	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	240.4	32.0
12	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	240.1	80.8
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	237.3	73.5
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	232.4	61.4
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	227.5	54.9
16	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	222.0	80.2
17	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	221.2	70.7
18	University of Delaware University of Delaware	217.0	35.2
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	211.3	45.0
20	University of Science and Technology of China	204.3	62.4
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	203.2	53.6
22	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	202.3	46.6
23	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	200.4	64.2
23	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	200.4	42.7
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	199.0	42.5
26	Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology	198.1	62.1
27	Polytechnic Institute of Milan Polytechnic Institute of Milan	197.9	58.0
28	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	197.2	78.7
29	University of Porto University of Porto	196.2	63.9
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	196.1	64.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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