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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	285.5	100.0
2	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	252.3	76.8
3	University of Arizona University of Arizona	247.5	78.4
4	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	242.6	88.6
5	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	238.1	78.8
6	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	234.2	66.6
7	Hohai University Hohai University	232.6	89.6
8	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	229.4	72.9
9	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	228.0	75.9
10	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	227.8	73.9
11	University of Bristol University of Bristol	225.5	55.8
12	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	223.6	65.4
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	223.0	76.6
14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	216.5	60.5
15	University of Tehran University of Tehran	212.2	76.2
16	Ghent University Ghent University	208.7	62.7
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	208.4	63.7
18	Flinders University Flinders University	206.0	57.7
18	University of Lisbon University of Lisbon	206.0	66.8
18	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	206.0	54.6
21	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	205.8	58.8
22	Utrecht University Utrecht University	204.7	53.2
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	204.3	61.3
24	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	203.1	67.6
25	University of Padua University of Padua	202.7	52.2
26	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	201.3	69.3
27	Wuhan University Wuhan University	201.2	67.5
28	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	197.6	56.7
29	Tongji University Tongji University	197.2	71.8
30	KU Leuven KU Leuven	196.4	58.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.