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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	348.6	71.6
2	King's College London King's College London	339.8	45.8
3	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	300.2	61.6
4	Maastricht University Maastricht University	292.0	34.0
5	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	291.0	32.8
6	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	288.8	36.0
7	KU Leuven KU Leuven	288.3	32.5
8	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	279.9	55.9
9	University of Technology, Sydney University of Technology, Sydney	279.4	55.0
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	278.4	41.4
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	278.4	55.0
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	275.4	54.5
13	Ghent University Ghent University	275.2	30.0
14	Griffith University Griffith University	274.1	49.7
15	Taipei Medical University Taipei Medical University	269.2	36.0
16	University of Southampton University of Southampton	263.3	29.8
17	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	263.2	46.4
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	260.7	37.4
19	University of Sydney University of Sydney	256.9	54.4
20	Emory University Emory University	256.3	43.8
21	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	252.8	59.6
22	University of Western Sydney University of Western Sydney	251.4	50.5
23	Chang Gung University Chang Gung University	250.2	33.5
24	Curtin University Curtin University	248.6	42.7
25	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	247.8	33.2
26	University of Kansas University of Kansas	247.7	37.4
27	Duke University Duke University	247.6	56.6
28	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	241.9	43.7
29	Erasmus University Erasmus University	240.8	27.4
30	New York University New York University	239.6	45.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.