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)

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	299.2	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	262.7	69.1
3	Stanford University Stanford University	260.9	62.2
4	King's College London King's College London	233.4	54.3
5	University College London University College London	225.8	65.0
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.8	65.2
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford	221.3	51.7
8	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	219.1	58.9
9	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	216.6	52.8
10	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	215.9	48.8
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	215.1	53.0
12	Leiden University Leiden University	213.6	47.2
13	New York University New York University	212.2	48.6
14	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	212.0	52.3
15	Utrecht University Utrecht University	209.6	52.4
16	Imperial College London Imperial College London	207.9	42.6
17	Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine	206.8	59.2
18	Duke University Duke University	206.5	48.9
19	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	206.2	46.8
20	University of Munich University of Munich	206.0	49.3
21	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	205.3	48.1
22	Cornell University Cornell University	199.0	45.0
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California	198.8	38.7
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich	197.1	47.4
25	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	196.0	46.7
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	195.8	37.4
27	Yale University Yale University	193.3	47.6
28	University of Washington University of Washington	192.6	46.1
29	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna	191.9	46.9
30	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	190.5	43.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020