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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	351.1	68.9	95.1	81.6	79.9	90.8
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	337.0	68.9	98.9	81.7	73.0	79.8
3	Harvard University Harvard University United States	330.4	54.0	97.7	86.1	77.0	84.4
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	327.2	60.7	87.8	76.2	63.5	100.0
5	Stanford University Stanford University United States	321.8	61.2	100.0	79.5	72.3	72.5
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	320.5	62.4	86.3	90.4	69.3	84.4
7	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	308.7	58.9	91.2	81.2	64.9	77.5
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	295.6	79.9	97.8	89.2	100.0	0.0
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	295.3	100.0	86.5	56.5	97.5	0.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	294.1	49.4	97.2	83.1	58.3	72.5
11	University of Science and Technology of China China	285.7	92.3	89.9	53.6	92.7	0.0
12	Peking University Peking University China	282.1	82.3	90.4	57.5	97.9	0.0
13	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	272.0	49.6	75.8	71.2	41.5	90.8
14	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	268.7	55.0	84.4	75.2	53.0	61.2
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	268.5	73.7	91.7	87.9	85.4	0.0
16	Soochow University Soochow University China	265.0	79.1	92.7	59.3	81.2	0.0
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	256.5	60.1	83.9	86.4	56.5	38.7
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	254.9	82.1	85.0	60.3	75.9	0.0
19	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	246.7	79.4	83.1	53.1	73.5	0.0
20	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	245.4	81.2	88.6	54.9	64.6	0.0
21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	243.8	86.1	81.8	59.2	64.1	0.0
22	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	240.6	70.6	86.1	56.9	72.5	0.0
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	239.3	52.3	84.8	74.3	42.7	44.7
24	Jilin University Jilin University China	236.3	76.8	82.2	50.0	67.3	0.0
25	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	235.3	83.6	85.5	50.4	56.2	0.0
26	Fudan University Fudan University China	235.2	69.8	90.8	57.9	63.0	0.0
27	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	235.0	67.5	84.8	74.7	67.8	0.0
28	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	234.9	44.2	87.0	70.9	46.3	43.3
29	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	234.4	50.5	100.0	90.6	65.7	0.0
30	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	231.9	47.6	90.5	73.5	51.6	27.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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