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	279.5	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	257.7	46.9
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	256.0	56.3
4	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	255.0	46.3
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	251.5	51.5
6	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	243.1	69.2
7	University of Science and Technology of China	242.1	81.0
8	Peking University Peking University	240.2	52.0
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	239.7	77.2
10	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	237.1	96.5
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London	236.6	55.0
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	236.3	47.2
13	University of Chicago University of Chicago	236.1	48.5
14	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	235.5	82.3
15	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	235.4	47.4
16	Tianjin University Tianjin University	233.4	79.0
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	229.6	45.5
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	227.4	55.9
19	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	223.9	42.2
20	Soochow University Soochow University	222.0	41.9
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	222.0	52.1
20	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong	222.0	36.7
23	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	219.9	48.0
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University	219.6	27.7
25	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	218.7	50.9
26	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	216.1	37.2
27	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology	214.0	45.9
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	213.6	70.2
29	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	212.3	76.1
30	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	211.3	42.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020