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	Ghent University Ghent University	228.4	89.2
2	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	225.4	75.4
3	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover	209.4	85.5
4	Yangzhou University Yangzhou University	197.4	63.0
5	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	196.0	77.2
6	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	195.6	63.5
7	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	194.6	76.8
8	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	194.3	84.2
8	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	194.3	100.0
10	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	193.1	79.1
11	Leibniz University Hannover Leibniz University Hannover	188.9	74.0
11	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College	188.9	94.0
13	University of Bern University of Bern	187.5	77.4
14	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	185.8	74.3
15	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid	184.0	70.0
16	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	183.9	65.5
17	University of Guelph University of Guelph	183.3	85.4
18	Utrecht University Utrecht University	181.6	79.9
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	181.0	67.4
20	Iowa State University Iowa State University	178.7	68.5
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	177.7	70.8
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	177.7	77.7
23	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	173.6	77.3
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich	172.3	76.1
25	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	171.8	64.9
26	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	171.7	54.6
27	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	170.4	71.5
28	Free University Berlin Free University Berlin	169.5	56.2
29	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	168.7	80.7
30	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	168.6	68.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020