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	University of Science and Technology Beijing	256.8	100.0
2	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	253.6	71.5
3	Central South University Central South University	235.4	68.2
4	China University of Geosciences Beijing China University of Geosciences Beijing	223.2	50.4
5	China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou)	212.9	65.5
6	Kyushu University Kyushu University	211.1	30.0
7	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	197.9	40.1
8	University of Cape Town University of Cape Town	197.8	51.5
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto	195.1	29.1
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	193.6	29.6
11	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	192.8	30.9
12	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	192.1	45.0
13	McGill University McGill University	187.9	48.5
13	Nanjing University Nanjing University	187.9	31.4
15	Peking University Peking University	186.9	27.7
16	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	184.9	32.6
17	Northeastern University(China) Northeastern University(China)	182.4	54.3
18	China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing)	182.0	42.5
19	Curtin University Curtin University	174.6	42.8
20	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	170.0	41.5
21	University of Tehran University of Tehran	168.7	48.5
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	168.5	34.3
23	Monash University Monash University	167.6	33.1
24	University of Alberta University of Alberta	166.6	41.8
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	164.1	26.7
26	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	162.9	26.1
27	Sichuan University Sichuan University	162.3	27.2
28	University of South Australia University of South Australia	162.1	36.6
29	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	161.5	33.5
30	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	161.3	41.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.