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)

299 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	286.1	77.9
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University	284.4	95.4
3	University of Oxford University of Oxford	283.2	100.0
4	University College London University College London	271.8	88.1
5	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	266.1	89.2
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	262.8	86.4
7	Durham University Durham University	253.9	79.6
8	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	252.3	78.4
9	University of Exeter University of Exeter	249.1	73.1
10	University of Leeds University of Leeds	242.2	76.3
11	Newcastle University Newcastle University	242.0	67.9
11	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	242.0	74.5
13	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	241.7	67.5
14	The Australian National University The Australian National University	234.6	75.6
15	King's College London King's College London	231.9	62.3
16	Stockholm University Stockholm University	230.4	64.2
17	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	230.1	61.0
18	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	228.6	81.1
19	University of Washington University of Washington	228.0	66.1
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	224.9	82.1
21	Cardiff University Cardiff University	223.8	58.3
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	223.7	66.7
23	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	222.5	62.5
24	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	221.4	76.3
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	221.0	72.3
26	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	219.0	65.5
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto	216.9	70.8
28	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	216.6	69.3
29	McGill University McGill University	215.9	58.3
30	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	215.7	51.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020