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	Harvard University Harvard University	299.6	96.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	264.8	72.9
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	233.9	70.1
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	224.3	100.0
5	Stanford University Stanford University	222.7	70.0
6	Cornell University Cornell University	214.3	70.5
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	208.5	65.7
8	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	207.2	67.8
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto	202.6	65.6
10	University of Washington University of Washington	202.0	63.0
11	Seoul National University Seoul National University	200.9	82.3
12	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	200.8	58.4
13	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	199.9	69.3
14	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	199.1	56.8
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	197.3	69.8
16	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	196.9	70.9
17	University of Florida University of Florida	196.7	68.3
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	196.3	64.2
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	196.0	67.4
20	Ghent University Ghent University	195.7	71.6
21	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	194.8	59.9
22	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	194.6	64.9
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	194.2	67.8
24	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	192.0	68.0
25	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	191.5	79.7
26	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	190.5	60.4
27	University of Oxford University of Oxford	189.9	57.2
28	University College London University College London	189.4	63.8
29	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	189.1	78.8
30	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	186.0	62.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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