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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	300.0	79.1
2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	292.7	78.0
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	287.4	62.0
4	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	284.1	79.8
5	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	278.3	69.2
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	269.1	83.0
7	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	268.4	70.3
8	Erasmus University Erasmus University	267.8	82.6
9	Arizona State University Arizona State University	264.0	75.3
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	262.1	79.9
11	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	261.3	100.0
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	260.8	68.5
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	259.8	79.3
14	INSEAD INSEAD	257.2	52.8
15	Michigan State University Michigan State University	253.9	66.7
16	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	251.1	82.7
17	Stanford University Stanford University	250.1	63.0
18	New York University New York University	247.7	60.1
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	234.9	62.2
20	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	234.6	67.0
21	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	233.4	59.6
22	Columbia University Columbia University	231.3	58.4
22	University of Montreal University of Montreal	231.3	84.7
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University	229.1	60.8
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	227.9	67.9
26	Cornell University Cornell University	227.8	63.8
27	University of Southern California University of Southern California	227.1	58.1
28	University of Warwick University of Warwick	223.4	71.8
29	Tilburg University Tilburg University	219.5	66.4
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	219.4	49.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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