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	383.7	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	295.8	79.5
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	291.8	74.2
4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	282.3	82.6
5	Duke University Duke University	279.3	78.3
6	Columbia University Columbia University	269.7	75.5
7	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	268.1	68.3
8	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	255.4	63.5
9	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	248.2	71.3
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago	245.2	64.1
11	Princeton University Princeton University	245.1	49.5
12	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	242.4	53.3
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto	241.1	64.7
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	237.9	65.5
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	235.3	83.1
16	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	232.2	65.0
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	213.2	76.6
18	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	210.4	71.7
19	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	208.8	65.8
20	University of Washington University of Washington	206.9	80.2
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	197.6	70.2
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	197.3	68.8
23	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	191.2	73.0
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	185.4	58.6
25	Yale University Yale University	183.5	62.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	183.2	60.8
27	University of Oxford University of Oxford	182.4	72.2
27	University of Warwick University of Warwick	182.4	70.7
29	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	179.8	59.7
30	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	173.3	57.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.