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)

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Washington University of Washington	326.9	67.5
2	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	324.8	91.3
3	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	290.6	55.5
4	The University of Reading The University of Reading	282.9	66.7
5	Colorado State University Colorado State University	281.2	63.1
6	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	277.8	100.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	273.6	71.2
8	Princeton University Princeton University	271.8	61.7
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	264.9	52.8
10	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	249.1	67.0
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	249.0	56.3
12	Columbia University Columbia University	245.4	72.0
13	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	243.9	71.3
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford	241.0	55.1
15	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	238.6	49.7
16	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	235.9	68.1
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	233.2	66.1
18	Peking University Peking University	226.1	68.8
19	Stockholm University Stockholm University	224.7	53.6
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	224.1	47.0
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	222.6	45.3
22	Harvard University Harvard University	218.6	60.0
23	University of Leeds University of Leeds	217.1	58.2
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	217.0	44.3
25	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	216.8	56.4
26	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	216.1	60.5
27	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	214.0	65.4
28	Yale University Yale University	213.5	35.0
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	212.7	44.3
30	Nanjing University Nanjing University	212.0	62.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020