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	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen	291.7	97.5
2	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	259.0	86.5
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	254.7	90.6
4	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	247.2	84.0
5	Cornell University Cornell University	239.7	73.9
6	University of Florida University of Florida	239.1	89.0
7	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	236.8	82.1
8	Aarhus University Aarhus University	231.3	69.2
9	Ghent University Ghent University	231.0	70.7
10	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	228.1	69.8
11	Michigan State University Michigan State University	225.0	68.5
12	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	224.2	100.0
13	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	221.1	66.8
14	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	220.5	67.2
15	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	220.1	79.5
16	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	218.1	65.0
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	218.0	71.7
18	Iowa State University Iowa State University	216.2	66.6
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	213.9	65.5
20	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	212.9	69.8
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	210.9	61.3
22	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	208.6	71.5
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	208.1	64.8
24	AgroParisTech AgroParisTech	207.5	53.7
25	Oregon State University Oregon State University	207.4	67.3
26	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	205.6	62.2
27	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	204.8	60.9
28	University of Guelph University of Guelph	204.3	64.8
29	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	202.1	52.0
30	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	200.2	67.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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