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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	329.8	42.8
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	328.5	50.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University	310.9	41.3
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	275.6	51.2
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	258.4	100.0
6	Princeton University Princeton University	247.3	38.5
7	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	245.6	42.9
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	241.3	80.4
9	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	229.3	30.6
10	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	222.0	33.8
11	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	221.6	33.2
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	221.0	58.9
13	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	218.1	83.8
14	Southeast University Southeast University	217.8	91.4
15	Aalborg University Aalborg University	215.3	61.9
16	Harvard University Harvard University	215.0	32.3
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	214.1	44.0
18	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	210.7	52.3
19	Imperial College London Imperial College London	208.9	51.8
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	208.8	25.8
21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	207.9	78.8
22	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	207.4	43.5
23	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	205.4	39.3
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	205.2	49.9
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	204.5	82.7
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	204.0	41.3
27	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	203.5	47.5
28	Wuhan University Wuhan University	202.2	75.4
29	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	198.9	42.4
30	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	198.4	58.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020