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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	354.5	58.3
2	Stanford University Stanford University	320.6	53.8
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	290.8	44.7
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	279.9	53.8
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	269.1	100.0
6	Harvard University Harvard University	253.8	57.3
7	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	248.0	51.6
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	245.4	87.5
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	237.9	47.8
10	Princeton University Princeton University	237.0	36.0
11	Columbia University Columbia University	234.4	44.1
12	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	230.5	96.9
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	229.7	68.7
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	228.4	39.9
15	University of Toronto University of Toronto	226.6	46.2
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	225.9	89.6
17	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	224.0	68.7
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	222.4	88.0
19	Peking University Peking University	220.1	66.7
20	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	219.2	60.4
21	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	218.7	93.8
22	Cornell University Cornell University	218.3	36.9
23	Beihang University Beihang University	216.8	89.7
24	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	215.2	91.4
25	University of Southern California University of Southern California	214.9	45.0
26	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	214.8	54.0
26	Xidian University Xidian University	214.8	97.3
28	New York University New York University	211.2	37.8
29	University of Sydney University of Sydney	210.7	57.9
30	University of Oslo University of Oslo	208.6	33.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020