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	256.7	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	210.4	79.1
3	University of Washington University of Washington	188.2	67.0
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	187.1	65.6
5	University of Toronto University of Toronto	184.8	70.5
6	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	183.1	62.0
7	University College London University College London	178.6	60.8
8	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	178.2	64.2
9	Columbia University Columbia University	176.7	60.7
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	167.7	52.5
11	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	166.9	57.4
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	165.3	59.6
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	164.9	58.3
14	Yale University Yale University	162.2	52.6
15	Emory University Emory University	161.6	53.2
16	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	161.4	50.5
17	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	158.9	54.4
18	University of Sydney University of Sydney	156.7	57.4
19	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	155.3	51.5
20	Erasmus University Erasmus University	154.3	47.3
21	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	153.4	50.8
22	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	151.9	50.5
23	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	151.1	51.1
24	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	150.7	53.0
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	149.2	44.8
26	Boston University Boston University	148.9	47.2
27	Duke University Duke University	148.6	48.5
28	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	148.5	41.1
29	Monash University Monash University	147.7	50.4
30	University of Barcelona University of Barcelona	147.6	48.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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