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.

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	329.0	63.8
2	Beihang University Beihang University	318.9	100.0
3	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	303.0	49.1
4	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	283.6	52.2
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	274.1	50.3
6	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	265.0	43.6
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	263.0	41.1
8	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	261.2	44.1
9	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	251.7	67.7
10	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	250.3	39.6
11	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	249.7	63.6
12	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	247.5	43.6
13	National University of Defense Technology	247.3	71.5
14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	242.9	45.1
15	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	242.4	48.0
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	230.9	32.5
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	229.3	46.4
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto	225.7	29.1
19	Stanford University Stanford University	225.4	35.4
20	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	222.9	52.4
21	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	221.9	40.4
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	221.6	30.8
23	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	219.7	40.5
24	University of Florida University of Florida	219.5	40.0
25	University of Strathclyde University of Strathclyde	218.2	34.5
26	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	216.2	45.8
27	Polytechnic Institute of Milan Polytechnic Institute of Milan	214.9	40.5
28	University of Southampton University of Southampton	211.8	36.4
29	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	207.4	31.3
30	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	206.0	56.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.