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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	291.8	85.8
2	Griffith University Griffith University	278.3	100.0
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	270.2	79.9
4	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	268.4	93.3
5	Monash University Monash University	264.7	97.1
6	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	252.0	69.4
7	University of Sydney University of Sydney	249.0	91.5
8	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	248.2	92.7
9	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	242.2	88.3
10	Ghent University Ghent University	240.4	69.7
11	University of Southampton University of Southampton	239.6	51.1
12	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	237.4	72.7
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	235.3	66.8
14	Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University	232.7	66.5
15	University of Washington University of Washington	231.3	65.4
16	Yale University Yale University	230.5	66.5
17	King's College London King's College London	229.8	63.7
18	Emory University Emory University	229.6	65.9
19	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	223.6	66.5
20	Deakin University Deakin University	223.0	73.7
21	Duke University Duke University	222.3	71.0
21	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	222.3	58.7
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	221.3	74.9
24	KU Leuven KU Leuven	220.0	58.4
24	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	220.0	67.3
26	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	218.5	55.5
27	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	215.5	54.5
28	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	214.6	69.2
29	University of Leeds University of Leeds	214.3	51.1
30	Maastricht University Maastricht University	213.6	51.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020