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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	317.1	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	294.6	55.8
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	292.4	61.7
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	273.6	56.6
5	University of Washington University of Washington	250.8	63.6
6	Stanford University Stanford University	247.7	59.1
7	University College London University College London	236.7	59.2
8	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	227.8	28.3
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	222.2	62.8
10	Yale University Yale University	216.4	54.3
11	Columbia University Columbia University	215.1	49.0
12	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	211.0	39.4
13	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	202.4	52.7
14	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	201.6	49.9
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	200.7	56.3
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	199.3	55.7
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	187.9	64.1
18	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	185.2	31.8
19	University of Zurich University of Zurich	185.1	46.7
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	183.1	65.3
21	King's College London King's College London	179.0	40.5
22	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	176.5	47.0
23	Kyoto University Kyoto University	175.5	53.9
24	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	173.7	43.5
25	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	172.6	24.6
26	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	171.9	61.9
27	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	171.7	34.6
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	171.5	27.4
29	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	171.1	59.7
30	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	170.5	40.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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