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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	302.9	100.0
2	Griffith University Griffith University	235.1	78.3
3	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	232.7	83.2
4	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	213.7	71.3
5	Loughborough University Loughborough University	202.9	75.2
6	University of Surrey University of Surrey	192.9	51.0
7	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	191.9	60.8
8	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	186.4	49.1
9	Bournemouth University Bournemouth University	184.1	54.0
10	University of Birmingham University of Birmingham	183.6	55.7
11	Kyung Hee University Kyung Hee University	181.7	56.1
12	University of Florida University of Florida	180.8	57.1
13	Temple University Temple University	180.7	60.6
14	University of Otago University of Otago	174.0	55.9
15	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	173.3	54.7
16	The University of Waikato The University of Waikato	170.2	53.0
17	Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Metropolitan University	168.8	61.8
17	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	168.8	45.5
19	James Cook University James Cook University	165.1	58.5
20	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida	165.0	48.9
21	Monash University Monash University	164.8	48.7
22	Southern Cross University Southern Cross University	164.5	50.7
23	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	163.2	46.0
24	Sejong University Sejong University	161.9	44.2
25	Cornell University Cornell University	158.8	41.2
26	University of South Australia University of South Australia	156.8	52.1
27	Washington State University Washington State University	156.1	42.1
28	University of Nevada-Las Vegas University of Nevada-Las Vegas	155.6	41.5
29	University of Koeln University of Koeln	152.9	48.9
30	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	152.2	42.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.