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	University of Science and Technology Beijing	270.8	95.0
2	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	242.4	85.9
3	Central South University Central South University	240.9	100.0
4	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	231.5	73.5
5	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	228.9	83.2
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	213.9	42.6
7	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	209.9	43.2
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	209.8	81.8
9	Chongqing University Chongqing University	203.1	65.9
10	Tohoku University Tohoku University	199.0	54.0
11	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	198.7	62.4
12	Monash University Monash University	198.6	36.6
13	University of Science and Technology of China	195.1	62.1
14	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	194.7	39.8
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	192.6	60.6
16	Shanghai University Shanghai University	189.7	54.8
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	189.3	29.4
18	Pohang University of Science and Technology	188.6	44.7
19	Imperial College London Imperial College London	187.0	37.1
20	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	185.6	52.4
21	University of Oxford University of Oxford	185.1	33.0
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago	185.0	35.8
23	Northwestern University Northwestern University	184.8	34.3
24	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	183.1	39.3
24	University of Leoben University of Leoben	183.1	42.9
26	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	181.8	39.7
27	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	181.6	33.6
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	181.0	29.0
29	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	180.9	43.4
30	Beihang University Beihang University	180.5	55.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020