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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	282.4	89.5
2	Princeton University Princeton University	271.9	43.0
3	Southeast University Southeast University	265.0	95.8
4	Xidian University Xidian University	255.0	100.0
5	University of Southampton University of Southampton	252.2	57.9
6	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	249.7	93.9
6	Stanford University Stanford University	249.7	27.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	249.5	33.8
9	University of Sydney University of Sydney	244.2	48.9
10	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	243.0	94.0
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	232.6	55.3
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	224.1	54.3
13	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	220.0	58.8
14	King's College London King's College London	216.8	34.0
15	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	215.8	68.7
16	University of Houston University of Houston	215.1	49.4
17	Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London	214.8	46.9
18	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	214.1	76.6
19	Imperial College London Imperial College London	212.3	34.7
20	University College London University College London	211.7	42.9
21	Singapore University of Technology & Design	211.6	46.5
22	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	211.4	57.5
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	211.3	68.4
24	University of Southern California University of Southern California	211.2	35.3
25	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	210.8	44.0
26	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	206.1	49.4
27	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	204.6	47.9
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	203.4	38.2
29	Kyung Hee University Kyung Hee University	203.2	44.7
29	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	203.2	48.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020