2022 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.(Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	370.8	66.1
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	361.5	69.4
3	Stanford University Stanford University	360.1	65.4
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	336.8	64.4
5	Harvard University Harvard University	327.6	59.2
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	320.9	42.7
7	University of Science and Technology of China	302.7	100.0
8	University of Chicago University of Chicago	300.7	69.9
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	294.7	65.6
10	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	290.3	64.2
11	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	288.4	97.8
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	282.7	81.1
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	280.3	64.9
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	280.1	54.2
15	Peking University Peking University	278.9	87.2
16	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	272.2	67.9
17	Nankai University Nankai University	267.2	81.5
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	262.5	73.3
19	Columbia University Columbia University	261.1	41.9
20	Tianjin University Tianjin University	261.0	83.6
21	Nanjing University Nanjing University	259.3	84.3
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford	258.9	62.2
23	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	258.1	91.9
24	Soochow University Soochow University	257.2	83.5
25	Kyoto University Kyoto University	253.8	68.8
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	253.8	52.8
27	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	252.9	48.9
28	Fudan University Fudan University	251.4	78.2
29	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	250.5	79.7
30	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	245.0	89.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020