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	Harvard University Harvard University	404.4	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	303.7	76.2
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	295.1	67.2
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	293.5	73.1
5	University of Chicago University of Chicago	289.0	63.3
6	Columbia University Columbia University	282.6	70.3
7	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	278.9	72.7
8	Duke University Duke University	263.1	65.8
9	Princeton University Princeton University	257.9	55.7
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	254.8	58.6
11	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	252.8	65.2
12	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	244.9	52.9
13	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	240.5	62.2
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	235.7	59.2
15	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	228.8	53.8
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	227.6	73.8
17	University of Washington University of Washington	218.1	68.1
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	213.5	55.5
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	208.3	62.4
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	208.2	50.7
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	198.2	59.9
22	University of Oxford University of Oxford	197.6	66.2
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	193.7	61.9
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	189.1	51.0
25	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	188.7	53.4
26	University College London University College London	186.6	64.2
27	Yale University Yale University	185.7	56.9
28	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	182.4	51.6
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	179.5	44.0
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	178.8	48.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020