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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	299.1	100.0
2	University of Chicago University of Chicago	298.1	95.2
3	New York University New York University	288.6	98.0
4	Columbia University Columbia University	282.4	95.2
5	Harvard University Harvard University	269.2	85.1
6	Stanford University Stanford University	266.9	86.3
7	Boston College Boston College	263.2	83.1
8	University of Southern California University of Southern California	261.1	85.1
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	260.7	84.3
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	249.5	86.7
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	248.5	86.7
12	Duke University Duke University	244.2	73.7
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	244.0	84.7
14	Cornell University Cornell University	241.7	80.3
15	London Business School London Business School	240.1	73.3
16	London School of Economics and Political Science	239.4	80.7
17	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	238.4	72.4
18	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	232.0	81.9
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	227.8	74.6
20	Northwestern University Northwestern University	226.7	70.0
21	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	224.2	72.4
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	223.1	69.0
23	University of Washington University of Washington	222.6	72.4
24	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	220.0	69.0
25	Tilburg University Tilburg University	217.3	71.4
26	Arizona State University Arizona State University	217.1	77.7
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	216.6	67.6
28	HEC Paris HEC Paris	214.0	64.5
29	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	213.7	84.3
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	211.0	70.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020