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	322.6	100.0
2	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	296.8	52.2
3	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	274.7	62.9
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	268.7	38.5
5	University College London University College London	266.4	66.3
6	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	259.1	79.1
7	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	244.1	68.1
8	Yale University Yale University	220.9	53.6
9	University of Washington University of Washington	211.5	61.4
10	King's College London King's College London	208.7	60.3
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	202.4	64.3
12	Cardiff University Cardiff University	201.2	38.1
13	Stanford University Stanford University	200.2	51.9
14	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	199.2	59.4
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	192.5	52.9
16	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	192.1	39.7
17	University of Nottingham University of Nottingham	191.8	43.8
17	Utrecht University Utrecht University	191.8	71.6
19	The University of Dundee The University of Dundee	191.0	33.5
20	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	189.9	70.0
21	Columbia University Columbia University	186.5	53.9
22	Monash University Monash University	184.8	63.6
23	University of Oxford University of Oxford	182.6	55.6
24	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	180.3	68.0
25	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna	179.7	42.6
26	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	179.6	23.3
27	Uppsala University Uppsala University	179.2	57.6
28	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	177.9	59.6
29	University of Marburg University of Marburg	176.1	34.8
30	University of Zurich University of Zurich	173.7	45.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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