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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	308.9	46.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	267.9	100.0
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University	266.5	93.7
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	251.5	48.2
5	Stanford University Stanford University	249.6	40.4
6	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	247.7	66.9
7	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	243.9	80.1
8	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	238.0	75.3
9	Sichuan University Sichuan University	237.6	63.3
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	236.4	36.8
11	East China University of Science and Technology	235.2	73.9
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	232.9	39.6
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	220.0	61.6
14	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	219.5	71.8
15	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	219.1	26.4
16	University of Science and Technology of China	218.4	70.8
17	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	216.4	21.8
18	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	215.1	43.7
19	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	213.2	62.5
20	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	209.0	69.7
21	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	207.0	67.3
22	NanJing Tech University NanJing Tech University	205.7	60.3
23	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing	205.3	63.8
24	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	204.7	70.7
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London	202.4	52.5
26	Princeton University Princeton University	202.1	32.8
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	201.9	74.6
28	Central South University Central South University	201.0	62.5
29	Hunan University Hunan University	200.9	56.6
30	Jiangsu University Jiangsu University	199.9	60.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020