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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	290.3	100.0
2	University College London University College London	225.9	54.7
3	University of Toronto University of Toronto	224.2	66.5
4	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	219.8	64.3
5	University of Munich University of Munich	211.0	57.1
6	King's College London King's College London	209.4	43.1
7	Stanford University Stanford University	208.7	56.4
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	204.4	53.6
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	204.3	44.5
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	200.9	57.9
11	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	198.6	40.6
12	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	198.5	55.4
13	Utrecht University Utrecht University	198.4	47.5
14	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	198.0	41.7
15	Duke University Duke University	195.6	53.1
16	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	192.0	49.2
17	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	188.6	50.9
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich	188.0	43.6
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	186.8	47.2
20	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	186.7	36.5
21	New York University New York University	185.7	43.6
22	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich	184.7	41.8
23	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	184.2	36.7
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	184.0	52.3
25	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	183.4	45.8
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven	183.2	39.7
27	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin	182.7	45.6
28	Erasmus University Erasmus University	182.1	40.9
29	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna	180.8	40.8
30	Maastricht University Maastricht University	180.2	35.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.