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	Harvard University Harvard University	316.6	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	264.8	74.2
3	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	253.8	75.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University	248.2	66.5
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	245.6	64.6
6	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	242.3	63.1
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	239.8	72.5
8	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	236.7	79.7
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	236.6	60.1
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	232.6	77.2
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	232.2	58.7
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	230.6	58.0
13	University of Washington University of Washington	229.8	57.9
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	228.6	65.7
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	225.9	57.9
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	225.4	69.7
17	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	224.8	61.1
18	Cornell University Cornell University	223.2	62.3
19	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	223.1	58.2
20	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	222.7	68.3
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.4	56.1
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.9	61.2
23	Imperial College London Imperial College London	219.7	58.6
24	University College London University College London	218.6	61.5
25	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	218.0	57.1
26	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	217.1	54.3
27	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	216.3	61.6
28	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	216.2	55.7
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	216.0	62.2
30	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	215.1	59.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020