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	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	266.5	94.6
2	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	266.0	79.1
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	261.8	92.6
4	Southeast University Southeast University	260.6	100.0
5	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	260.3	80.4
6	Tongji University Tongji University	251.0	81.8
7	Beihang University Beihang University	231.0	67.1
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	222.2	63.8
8	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	222.2	53.5
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney	222.1	69.8
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	221.1	59.8
12	University of Leeds University of Leeds	219.9	58.1
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	216.2	58.6
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	214.4	60.0
15	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	211.3	69.9
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	210.2	56.7
17	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	205.3	63.0
18	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	204.5	66.2
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	203.0	49.9
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	202.4	47.2
20	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	202.4	71.9
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	202.4	62.0
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	200.9	54.5
24	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	198.1	55.0
25	Xidian University Xidian University	197.8	77.4
26	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	197.1	59.1
27	University of South Florida University of South Florida	196.6	42.2
28	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	194.2	67.1
29	Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology	193.9	48.5
30	University of Montreal University of Montreal	193.8	51.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020