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)	369.6	71.6
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	366.7	67.9
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	328.5	62.3
4	Stanford University Stanford University	312.5	54.3
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University	305.6	59.6
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	288.9	71.8
7	Harvard University Harvard University	287.4	53.8
8	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	284.0	57.5
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	278.2	48.0
10	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	260.4	60.8
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	248.9	52.3
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	245.8	57.3
13	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	236.9	59.7
14	Cornell University Cornell University	230.5	42.7
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	225.9	100.0
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	224.2	53.7
17	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	222.5	60.1
18	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	222.0	42.8
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	221.8	56.9
20	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	221.5	39.2
20	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	221.5	82.9
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago	221.4	60.7
23	Tohoku University Tohoku University	217.5	80.4
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	215.5	75.3
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	212.8	65.7
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	210.9	44.7
27	University of California, Riverside University of California, Riverside	205.2	32.0
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	198.2	59.1
29	Rice University Rice University	197.7	42.0
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	197.5	84.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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