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)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	353.5	100.0
2	University College London University College London	306.3	65.8
3	Columbia University Columbia University	297.0	51.0
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	291.5	46.1
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	273.7	25.2
6	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	242.0	37.0
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	239.7	48.4
8	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	239.3	34.4
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	236.7	47.0
10	University of Zurich University of Zurich	235.5	40.5
11	Stanford University Stanford University	227.5	55.9
12	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	225.2	58.8
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	216.4	57.5
14	Kyoto University Kyoto University	216.2	28.6
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	211.8	50.6
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	211.6	57.9
17	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	211.0	65.3
18	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	209.8	18.3
19	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	204.2	44.4
19	Yale University Yale University	204.2	50.6
21	Cornell University Cornell University	204.1	43.2
22	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	203.4	48.0
23	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	199.9	29.2
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	198.2	58.0
25	University of Washington University of Washington	197.7	51.4
26	New York University New York University	196.7	42.9
27	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	195.8	52.8
28	Imperial College London Imperial College London	194.8	48.1
29	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg	194.1	23.7
30	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	193.9	17.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020