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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	301.0	100.0
2	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	296.0	87.6
3	University of Science and Technology of China	291.0	94.1
4	Peking University Peking University	288.4	93.0
5	Soochow University Soochow University	281.3	87.3
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	273.2	80.3
7	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	266.8	76.3
8	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	260.8	82.5
9	Stanford University Stanford University	257.4	68.6
10	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	254.3	79.8
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	253.5	72.5
12	Fudan University Fudan University	251.9	78.2
13	Harvard University Harvard University	249.0	65.4
14	Nanjing University Nanjing University	247.7	79.0
15	Tianjin University Tianjin University	246.1	73.5
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	241.5	77.9
17	Nankai University Nankai University	236.3	65.2
18	Jilin University Jilin University	234.0	74.0
19	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	233.8	69.4
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	232.8	62.1
21	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	232.1	60.8
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	231.7	56.9
23	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	230.1	62.1
24	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	230.0	56.9
25	Northwestern University Northwestern University	229.4	63.2
26	Wuhan University Wuhan University	229.3	66.4
27	University of Chicago University of Chicago	228.4	65.8
28	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	228.3	70.8
29	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	225.9	64.5
30	Beihang University Beihang University	222.7	60.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020