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	Wuhan University Wuhan University	277.2	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	247.4	73.6
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	241.5	79.8
4	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	228.4	66.7
5	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	215.5	57.3
6	University of Twente University of Twente	213.1	58.3
7	Boston University Boston University	205.1	40.5
8	University of Lisbon University of Lisbon	192.6	32.2
9	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	191.2	42.2
10	University of Iceland University of Iceland	186.5	33.0
11	University of Valencia University of Valencia	179.3	44.5
12	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	178.4	46.7
13	University of Zurich University of Zurich	177.8	35.7
14	University of Munich University of Munich	177.7	47.5
15	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	177.6	41.9
16	Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble	177.5	29.6
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	177.3	44.1
17	Xidian University Xidian University	177.3	60.1
19	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	176.6	35.1
20	Vienna University of Technology Vienna University of Technology	176.1	38.4
21	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	175.8	44.8
22	University of Trento University of Trento	174.4	36.3
23	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	174.3	35.1
24	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	173.3	32.2
25	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	171.3	28.2
26	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	170.6	34.7
27	South Dakota State University South Dakota State University	170.0	32.8
28	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	169.8	43.7
29	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	169.6	35.3
30	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	169.3	43.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.