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)	351.1	68.9
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	337.0	68.9
3	Harvard University Harvard University	330.4	54.0
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	327.2	60.7
5	Stanford University Stanford University	321.8	61.2
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	320.5	62.4
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	308.7	58.9
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	295.6	79.9
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	295.3	100.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	294.1	49.4
11	University of Science and Technology of China	285.7	92.3
12	Peking University Peking University	282.1	82.3
13	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	272.0	49.6
14	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	268.7	55.0
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	268.5	73.7
16	Soochow University Soochow University	265.0	79.1
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London	256.5	60.1
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	254.9	82.1
19	Tianjin University Tianjin University	246.7	79.4
20	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	245.4	81.2
21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	243.8	86.1
22	Nanjing University Nanjing University	240.6	70.6
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	239.3	52.3
24	Jilin University Jilin University	236.3	76.8
25	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	235.3	83.6
26	Fudan University Fudan University	235.2	69.8
27	University of Chicago University of Chicago	235.0	67.5
28	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	234.9	44.2
29	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	234.4	50.5
30	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	231.9	47.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020