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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	274.9	100.0
2	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	267.5	79.9
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	265.5	86.3
4	University of Leeds University of Leeds	245.6	72.6
5	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	241.8	61.8
6	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	237.4	51.1
7	University of Sydney University of Sydney	236.7	78.7
8	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	234.7	62.8
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	230.9	73.8
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	228.7	69.3
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	228.0	74.9
12	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	224.9	74.3
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	224.4	67.8
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	223.2	74.0
15	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	222.5	64.6
16	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	220.9	51.9
17	University of Montreal University of Montreal	220.4	50.3
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	218.6	44.2
19	Tongji University Tongji University	218.5	75.7
20	Monash University Monash University	218.4	80.0
21	University College London University College London	214.7	67.2
22	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	212.4	69.5
23	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	211.6	66.4
24	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	209.9	57.0
25	Southeast University Southeast University	205.5	71.1
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	204.8	71.6
27	University of Florida University of Florida	199.6	56.8
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	198.6	63.4
29	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	196.7	76.4
30	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	195.8	65.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.