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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	302.8	100.0	86.6	81.1	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	276.9	83.3	82.6	61.7	98.6
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	248.0	65.2	96.6	80.7	70.1
4	Fudan University Fudan University China	236.6	56.1	80.7	52.8	89.2
5	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	235.9	63.9	79.8	61.0	79.9
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	235.6	71.6	87.6	70.6	62.4
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	225.2	64.8	77.8	62.7	70.1
8	Soochow University Soochow University China	221.0	48.1	88.4	56.4	73.3
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	218.9	64.2	77.1	72.3	63.1
10	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	215.3	55.4	80.1	58.7	68.0
11	Peking University Peking University China	214.4	58.6	80.2	58.6	63.8
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	211.8	56.9	74.5	86.2	63.1
13	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	210.7	44.4	100.0	68.1	52.7
14	Korea University Korea University South Korea	210.3	51.5	83.4	72.9	60.9
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	207.8	53.1	86.4	69.4	54.4
16	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	207.5	54.4	69.6	54.7	72.6
16	University of Science and Technology of China China	207.5	38.6	88.5	61.9	68.0
18	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	205.7	55.7	71.9	64.4	65.3
19	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	204.3	57.3	74.6	57.5	60.9
20	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	203.9	48.4	83.8	66.1	58.5
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	202.8	60.3	68.1	71.7	60.1
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	199.8	59.7	83.3	80.1	40.8
23	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	198.2	48.1	79.8	87.8	52.7
24	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	197.9	53.9	80.9	65.2	50.0
24	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	197.9	40.3	82.5	60.1	63.1
26	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	197.3	56.9	77.9	62.3	50.0
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	197.0	56.1	78.4	71.6	48.1
28	Nankai University Nankai University China	195.0	36.5	86.3	53.0	61.6
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	194.5	33.5	95.3	64.9	52.7
30	Columbia University Columbia University United States	193.9	48.6	83.7	72.1	47.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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