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)

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Beihang University Beihang University	277.5	100.0
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	250.2	83.5
3	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	236.2	72.4
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	223.4	71.0
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	222.6	33.4
6	National University of Defense Technology	218.3	69.4
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	216.0	52.8
8	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	208.5	42.6
9	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	205.2	37.5
10	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	204.4	64.7
11	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	196.7	28.1
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	193.6	26.7
13	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	180.8	22.7
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	180.0	24.3
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	179.1	29.0
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	177.0	29.7
17	Stanford University Stanford University	174.6	21.2
18	University of Southampton University of Southampton	173.7	24.9
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto	173.3	25.4
20	University of Bristol University of Bristol	172.9	18.5
21	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	172.4	27.9
22	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	170.6	31.2
23	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	169.3	24.9
24	Cranfield University Cranfield University	166.0	37.0
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	165.6	15.4
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	165.0	22.7
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	165.0	35.9
28	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	164.3	23.5
28	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	164.3	33.4
30	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	163.9	36.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020