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	Tongji University Tongji University	366.3	100.0
2	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	256.5	42.9
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	233.4	79.0
4	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	227.4	74.6
5	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	220.7	33.4
6	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	219.0	38.3
7	Southeast University Southeast University	218.7	78.6
7	University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame	218.7	20.3
9	Lehigh University Lehigh University	218.4	20.3
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	217.7	35.0
11	University of Canterbury University of Canterbury	216.7	23.4
12	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	210.8	44.8
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	200.4	52.9
14	Chongqing University Chongqing University	200.0	60.3
15	Hunan University Hunan University	199.9	57.8
16	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	199.6	59.1
17	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	197.1	51.5
18	Western University Western University	195.5	29.6
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	195.3	66.1
20	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	194.2	55.1
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	192.2	47.8
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	190.7	40.2
23	Tianjin University Tianjin University	190.6	67.3
23	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	190.6	48.1
25	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	189.3	25.2
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	181.1	45.1
27	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	180.8	52.5
28	Imperial College London Imperial College London	180.7	43.6
29	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	180.6	71.2
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	180.6	37.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020