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)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	374.2	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	322.6	62.5
3	Stanford University Stanford University	317.9	63.1
4	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	293.2	30.4
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	287.3	63.1
6	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	278.7	56.5
7	University of Washington University of Washington	278.6	59.3
8	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	273.0	58.5
9	Columbia University Columbia University	272.6	49.6
10	University College London University College London	266.0	57.0
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	249.6	64.4
12	Yale University Yale University	247.5	51.1
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	240.3	49.2
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	239.9	48.8
15	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	239.3	38.1
16	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	228.1	48.4
17	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	224.1	30.1
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	218.7	59.2
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	218.0	27.7
20	Princeton University Princeton University	211.6	31.2
21	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	210.7	42.0
22	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	208.1	25.5
23	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	205.7	56.7
24	Cornell University Cornell University	203.4	57.2
25	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	203.0	19.5
26	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	202.4	52.3
27	Cardiff University Cardiff University	198.1	27.5
28	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	198.0	46.5
29	University of Toronto University of Toronto	197.1	57.7
30	University of Alberta University of Alberta	195.7	34.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020