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	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	291.0	96.7
2	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	286.3	100.0
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	271.6	95.4
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	256.2	75.1
5	Ghent University Ghent University	255.3	79.0
6	University of Campinas University of Campinas	252.6	84.5
7	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	252.5	87.5
8	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	244.7	78.8
9	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	243.8	80.7
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	243.1	72.7
11	University of Porto University of Porto	239.0	69.2
12	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst	238.4	56.5
13	KU Leuven KU Leuven	235.9	68.4
14	University of Guelph University of Guelph	234.7	75.3
15	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	233.2	67.8
16	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia	222.7	63.6
17	Aarhus University Aarhus University	220.7	64.5
18	China Medical University (Taiwan) China Medical University (Taiwan)	220.1	59.9
19	University of Bologna University of Bologna	218.8	63.7
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	218.0	54.8
21	University of Valencia University of Valencia	217.1	56.1
22	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	217.0	67.8
23	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	216.7	64.4
24	Nanchang University Nanchang University	216.6	55.0
25	University Putra Malaysia University Putra Malaysia	214.9	80.1
26	Cornell University Cornell University	211.9	71.2
27	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	211.7	58.4
28	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	211.4	62.3
29	University College Cork University College Cork	207.4	59.7
30	University of Granada University of Granada	204.4	52.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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