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)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford	280.4	92.7
2	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	276.7	81.0
3	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	275.7	100.0
4	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	260.7	85.2
5	PSL University PSL University	259.9	84.3
6	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	254.5	85.9
7	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	252.6	86.4
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	252.4	81.1
9	University of Exeter University of Exeter	250.4	80.8
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	248.6	68.6
11	University of Zurich University of Zurich	247.9	73.4
12	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	244.3	75.7
13	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	238.6	77.6
14	Cornell University Cornell University	238.0	79.7
15	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	237.2	90.7
16	Western Sydney University Western Sydney University	232.3	50.2
17	Stanford University Stanford University	232.1	62.7
18	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	230.2	62.6
19	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	228.6	81.9
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	228.2	66.3
21	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	224.8	63.3
22	Institut Agro Institut Agro	224.1	72.9
23	James Cook University James Cook University	223.8	78.9
24	Colorado State University Colorado State University	223.7	72.8
25	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	222.7	79.8
26	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	220.4	80.5
27	Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3 Universite Paul-Valery Montpellier 3	220.1	64.2
28	University of Arizona University of Arizona	218.8	63.2
29	University of Florida University of Florida	217.7	81.6
30	Lancaster University Lancaster University	217.5	51.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020