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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	282.6	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	226.7	62.3
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	220.7	61.8
4	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	216.2	49.9
5	Xidian University Xidian University	209.8	55.9
6	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	207.6	63.5
7	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	190.5	46.1
8	University of Iceland University of Iceland	189.0	31.3
9	University of Twente University of Twente	188.2	49.4
10	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	186.4	33.1
11	University of Valencia University of Valencia	180.9	35.2
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	180.5	43.0
12	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	180.5	32.1
14	Boston University Boston University	179.6	30.2
15	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	179.2	39.7
16	Hunan University Hunan University	177.9	28.0
17	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	176.7	39.1
18	Nanjing University Nanjing University	176.4	42.7
19	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University	174.6	28.9
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	173.5	35.0
21	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	173.2	26.5
22	South Dakota State University South Dakota State University	171.9	30.9
23	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	171.6	34.4
24	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	170.7	42.4
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich	170.7	27.5
26	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	170.5	40.2
27	University of Trento University of Trento	169.0	30.2
28	University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston	167.8	23.1
29	University of Oklahoma - Norman University of Oklahoma - Norman	167.7	33.9
30	Peking University Peking University	164.8	40.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020