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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	302.8	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	276.9	83.3
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	248.0	65.2
4	Fudan University Fudan University	236.6	56.1
5	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	235.9	63.9
6	Stanford University Stanford University	235.6	71.6
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	225.2	64.8
8	Soochow University Soochow University	221.0	48.1
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	218.9	64.2
10	Sichuan University Sichuan University	215.3	55.4
11	Peking University Peking University	214.4	58.6
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	211.8	56.9
13	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	210.7	44.4
14	Korea University Korea University	210.3	51.5
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	207.8	53.1
16	Seoul National University Seoul National University	207.5	54.4
16	University of Science and Technology of China	207.5	38.6
18	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	205.7	55.7
19	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	204.3	57.3
20	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	203.9	48.4
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	202.8	60.3
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London	199.8	59.7
23	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	198.2	48.1
24	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	197.9	53.9
24	Wuhan University Wuhan University	197.9	40.3
26	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	197.3	56.9
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	197.0	56.1
28	Nankai University Nankai University	195.0	36.5
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	194.5	33.5
30	Columbia University Columbia University	193.9	48.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020