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	Harvard University Harvard University	290.0	100.0
2	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	258.0	90.2
3	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	227.7	73.1
4	Wuhan University Wuhan University	221.8	81.0
5	KU Leuven KU Leuven	221.1	74.4
6	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	219.9	71.2
7	University of Arizona University of Arizona	213.3	73.6
8	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	212.3	73.4
8	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	212.3	65.1
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	211.3	76.2
11	University of Granada University of Granada	207.9	78.6
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	206.1	74.9
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	201.3	65.1
14	University of Washington University of Washington	201.1	73.6
15	Georgia State University Georgia State University	200.7	62.7
16	Michigan State University Michigan State University	198.8	67.1
17	Leiden University Leiden University	198.6	59.6
18	University of Antwerp University of Antwerp	198.4	65.1
19	University of Wolverhampton University of Wolverhampton	198.1	61.5
20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	197.2	82.4
21	McGill University McGill University	194.3	67.7
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	193.9	71.0
23	National Taiwan University National Taiwan University	193.4	65.4
24	University of Montreal University of Montreal	193.2	63.9
25	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	193.1	72.6
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	191.9	63.6
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	191.4	63.9
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	191.2	58.9
29	Columbia University Columbia University	190.0	61.2
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	189.1	73.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.