2022 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.(See full Methodology)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Washington University of Washington United States	326.9	67.5	79.3	68.4	66.4	100.0
2	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	324.8	91.3	79.8	75.8	95.8	42.6
3	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	290.6	55.5	79.7	78.6	54.4	85.3
4	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	282.9	66.7	75.3	83.0	65.9	58.4
5	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	281.2	63.1	71.6	68.4	65.4	67.4
6	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	277.8	100.0	63.7	70.3	100.0	0.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	273.6	71.2	81.3	78.5	75.3	30.2
8	Princeton University Princeton University United States	271.8	61.7	87.2	73.5	56.0	52.2
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	264.9	52.8	78.0	79.3	52.5	65.7
10	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	249.1	67.0	81.4	77.2	63.8	21.3
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	249.0	56.3	80.8	77.9	59.3	36.9
12	Columbia University Columbia University United States	245.4	72.0	89.0	79.4	68.6	0.0
13	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France	243.9	71.3	84.7	94.0	69.1	0.0
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	241.0	55.1	82.3	86.4	49.5	36.9
15	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	238.6	49.7	72.7	91.3	55.2	42.6
16	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University France	235.9	68.1	79.1	93.3	70.1	0.0
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	233.2	66.1	88.2	90.5	60.8	0.0
18	Peking University Peking University China	226.1	68.8	79.7	79.5	61.7	0.0
19	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	224.7	53.6	81.0	96.3	49.6	21.3
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	224.1	47.0	80.1	75.2	39.2	42.6
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	222.6	45.3	78.2	80.4	46.1	36.9
22	Harvard University Harvard University United States	218.6	60.0	84.3	83.4	57.6	0.0
23	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	217.1	58.2	82.1	88.7	59.0	0.0
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	217.0	44.3	75.6	78.2	44.5	36.9
25	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	216.8	56.4	91.2	81.5	52.9	0.0
26	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	216.1	60.5	85.5	78.2	54.4	0.0
27	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	214.0	65.4	74.1	68.4	60.8	0.0
28	Yale University Yale University United States	213.5	35.0	79.1	79.8	31.2	52.2
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	212.7	44.3	69.2	66.6	43.3	42.6
30	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	212.0	62.8	68.1	75.1	66.1	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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