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	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	297.3	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	270.6	87.1
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	260.1	80.6
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	258.9	81.8
5	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	255.7	86.2
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	254.5	88.0
7	Peking University Peking University	250.3	84.1
8	Stanford University Stanford University	249.5	70.1
9	University of Science and Technology of China	242.8	76.9
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University	240.3	84.5
11	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	239.6	80.0
12	Harvard University Harvard University	238.2	72.3
13	Fudan University Fudan University	231.6	71.6
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University	229.7	69.1
15	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	228.9	74.9
16	Rice University Rice University	228.8	57.6
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	225.9	66.8
18	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	225.5	80.2
18	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	225.5	62.6
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	222.5	68.3
21	University of Chicago University of Chicago	220.5	66.8
22	Jilin University Jilin University	219.2	76.5
23	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	217.9	62.0
24	Soochow University Soochow University	216.9	64.5
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	215.2	78.8
26	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	214.7	65.8
27	Nanjing University Nanjing University	214.2	71.4
28	University of Oxford University of Oxford	212.7	54.2
29	Pohang University of Science and Technology	211.6	70.5
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	207.0	62.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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