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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	314.5	81.2
2	Northwestern University Northwestern University	286.5	62.9
3	Erasmus University Erasmus University	281.8	86.2
4	Harvard University Harvard University	279.9	100.0
5	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	274.8	80.6
5	Tilburg University Tilburg University	274.8	74.4
7	Columbia University Columbia University	268.9	70.2
8	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	257.6	71.9
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	254.8	62.8
10	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	254.2	55.6
11	Stanford University Stanford University	253.8	63.7
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	251.6	72.0
13	Duke University Duke University	248.0	53.8
14	Cornell University Cornell University	244.7	69.8
15	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	243.9	70.0
16	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	242.2	74.1
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto	241.0	65.0
18	University of Alberta University of Alberta	235.9	53.8
19	University of Florida University of Florida	231.7	55.6
20	University of Southern California University of Southern California	230.8	59.7
21	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	227.9	68.7
22	New York University New York University	227.6	56.4
23	University of Chicago University of Chicago	225.7	47.7
24	Georgia State University Georgia State University	223.8	65.9
25	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	221.3	65.6
26	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	221.2	59.5
27	University of South Carolina - Columbia University of South Carolina - Columbia	220.5	53.8
28	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus	216.6	47.3
29	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	216.4	44.8
30	Arizona State University Arizona State University	215.2	63.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.