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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	348.6	100.0
2	University of Toronto University of Toronto	282.8	84.7
3	Stanford University Stanford University	279.5	67.5
4	University College London University College London	270.1	81.8
5	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	268.0	78.7
6	Columbia University Columbia University	266.8	78.0
7	Northwestern University Northwestern University	259.8	61.9
7	Yale University Yale University	259.8	75.0
9	New York University New York University	258.7	69.4
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	258.3	70.6
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	255.7	77.0
12	Duke University Duke University	246.5	64.4
13	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	244.9	72.7
14	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	238.0	63.6
15	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	233.4	67.4
16	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	233.3	64.5
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	228.3	54.8
18	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	227.9	65.8
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	222.9	64.0
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	220.1	59.3
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	219.9	65.2
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago	219.1	51.8
23	VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam	217.6	64.8
24	Utrecht University Utrecht University	216.3	66.8
25	Cornell University Cornell University	215.9	54.8
26	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	211.2	61.1
27	King's College London King's College London	210.7	69.5
28	University of Groningen University of Groningen	209.6	63.6
29	University of Virginia University of Virginia	208.9	48.5
30	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	208.4	64.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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