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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Hohai University Hohai University	277.1	100.0
2	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	276.7	89.3
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	275.3	95.6
4	Wuhan University Wuhan University	271.7	92.2
5	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	269.7	85.8
6	University of Arizona University of Arizona	269.6	76.8
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	264.0	92.9
8	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	250.3	92.1
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	246.7	96.3
10	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	242.5	81.0
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	239.4	70.0
12	Nanjing University Nanjing University	235.3	76.1
13	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	232.3	87.9
14	University of Bristol University of Bristol	231.7	61.3
15	Princeton University Princeton University	231.5	48.6
16	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	230.2	70.6
17	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	228.1	62.3
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	227.4	60.8
19	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	227.0	49.4
20	Flinders University Flinders University	223.5	59.3
21	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	223.0	73.3
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London	222.9	64.4
23	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	222.6	66.6
24	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	221.2	63.4
25	Utrecht University Utrecht University	218.9	62.3
26	University of Padua University of Padua	217.6	55.9
27	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	216.8	77.6
28	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	215.1	63.1
29	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	214.6	61.7
30	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	212.0	76.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020