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	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	306.6	91.6
2	Princeton University Princeton University	283.4	72.3
3	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	254.5	100.0
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	244.4	65.6
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	238.0	82.3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	232.6	80.8
7	Stanford University Stanford University	226.2	64.5
8	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	219.5	75.0
9	New York University New York University	209.7	61.6
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	203.3	66.0
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	198.1	63.7
12	PSL University PSL University	196.4	73.5
13	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	191.2	60.1
14	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	184.5	68.3
15	University of Bonn University of Bonn	182.8	67.5
16	Stony Brook University Stony Brook University	180.4	44.9
17	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	173.9	43.5
18	University of Chicago University of Chicago	173.7	63.4
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	172.4	59.9
20	University of Warwick University of Warwick	172.1	57.7
21	Harvard University Harvard University	170.9	48.8
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	167.8	60.0
23	Imperial College London Imperial College London	166.6	71.4
24	University of Paris University of Paris	162.9	65.8
25	Kyoto University Kyoto University	162.6	57.7
26	Columbia University Columbia University	161.6	57.1
27	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	155.7	52.9
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	154.2	58.0
29	University of Vienna University of Vienna	153.4	72.2
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	152.8	66.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020