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	373.6	56.8
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	354.3	63.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University	345.5	55.5
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	343.0	76.9
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	330.3	52.3
6	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	324.2	55.9
7	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	315.0	72.1
8	University of Chicago University of Chicago	312.1	69.0
9	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	310.2	64.7
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	299.2	35.4
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University	292.3	29.2
12	Seoul National University Seoul National University	291.0	63.5
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	284.9	100.0
14	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	284.3	36.9
15	University of Science and Technology of China	276.4	78.9
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	271.7	61.0
17	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	269.9	26.9
18	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	267.5	61.2
19	University of Washington University of Washington	267.2	34.4
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	265.3	61.5
21	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	264.5	35.0
22	Pohang University of Science and Technology	264.0	39.9
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	260.9	65.8
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	260.0	44.1
25	Fudan University Fudan University	258.6	48.1
26	Peking University Peking University	257.2	58.4
27	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	257.1	51.1
28	Monash University Monash University	256.4	45.6
29	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	255.6	76.4
30	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	253.7	51.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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