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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	328.7	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	287.7	57.2
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	272.5	38.3
4	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	266.3	65.1
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	260.0	59.6
6	University of Washington University of Washington	257.1	52.9
7	University College London University College London	247.9	58.9
8	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	241.2	55.7
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	235.8	44.4
10	Stanford University Stanford University	229.8	51.1
11	Duke University Duke University	227.4	52.5
12	Columbia University Columbia University	226.6	53.1
13	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	222.7	46.5
14	Emory University Emory University	217.2	45.0
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	215.0	21.9
16	University of Toronto University of Toronto	214.5	70.1
17	Yale University Yale University	208.3	47.7
18	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	208.2	53.8
19	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	208.1	38.6
20	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	207.1	47.4
21	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	206.2	53.0
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	205.2	44.2
23	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	197.3	10.4
24	University of Utah University of Utah	195.0	37.4
25	King's College London King's College London	194.9	46.4
26	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	191.1	43.4
27	Oregon Health and Science University Oregon Health and Science University	190.7	35.9
28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	189.8	54.8
29	Aarhus University Aarhus University	183.6	39.8
30	University of Zurich University of Zurich	182.1	37.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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