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	298.4	100.0
2	University College London University College London	236.4	73.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University	236.0	65.8
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	233.1	69.8
5	Yale University Yale University	228.7	68.8
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University	220.2	62.1
7	University of Toronto University of Toronto	219.3	75.4
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	219.2	68.8
9	Columbia University Columbia University	216.9	68.8
10	New York University New York University	214.0	61.8
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	208.6	58.0
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago	207.6	48.6
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	207.1	71.9
14	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	202.4	64.0
15	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	200.7	58.9
16	King's College London King's College London	197.1	68.0
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	194.7	56.4
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	192.2	52.5
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	191.5	62.3
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	190.8	52.2
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	190.1	56.6
22	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	188.8	64.7
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	188.7	57.0
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	187.4	56.1
25	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	186.5	51.5
26	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	185.4	53.8
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	183.6	57.7
28	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	182.7	65.2
29	Duke University Duke University	182.3	57.5
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	180.9	61.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020