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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	285.0	100.0
2	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	271.3	39.5
3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	267.2	91.8
4	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	266.7	39.1
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	265.9	87.2
6	Stanford University Stanford University	251.4	30.0
7	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	248.2	48.8
8	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	245.7	22.5
9	Northwestern University Northwestern University	244.1	26.3
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	242.6	20.7
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	242.2	37.0
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	240.2	84.3
13	Imperial College London Imperial College London	229.9	52.4
14	Beihang University Beihang University	226.2	74.1
15	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	225.6	72.0
16	Harvard University Harvard University	221.1	18.4
17	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	220.9	43.0
18	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	218.9	24.9
19	University of Science and Technology of China	218.6	59.1
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	218.1	23.6
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	211.8	61.5
22	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	211.2	68.1
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	210.6	43.2
24	Tianjin University Tianjin University	210.2	69.1
25	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	209.6	58.8
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	208.5	52.4
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	208.4	42.0
28	Columbia University Columbia University	202.2	20.1
29	Chongqing University Chongqing University	202.1	66.2
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	201.6	64.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020