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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	343.3	61.3
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	305.3	48.3
3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	303.3	77.4
4	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	293.9	54.1
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	289.6	86.1
6	Stanford University Stanford University	282.9	43.3
7	Imperial College London Imperial College London	276.5	51.9
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	276.4	48.7
9	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	273.3	29.6
10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	272.6	60.7
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	269.8	100.0
12	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	268.0	75.9
13	Harvard University Harvard University	267.7	39.8
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	266.3	44.0
15	University of Groningen University of Groningen	257.0	42.0
16	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	256.8	43.3
17	Southeast University Southeast University	252.7	81.1
18	Beihang University Beihang University	250.2	86.8
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	241.3	83.7
20	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	237.4	36.1
21	The Australian National University The Australian National University	235.0	38.2
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	234.8	78.4
23	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	233.3	55.5
24	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	229.8	79.5
25	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	225.7	31.3
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	221.8	46.1
27	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	221.2	68.8
28	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	220.9	28.1
29	Polytechnic University of Milan Polytechnic University of Milan	216.1	53.0
30	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	214.6	55.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020