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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	279.5	100.0	73.0	54.5	95.6	0.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	257.7	46.9	96.0	74.5	100.0	0.0
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	256.0	56.3	93.1	89.3	88.7	0.0
4	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	255.0	46.3	91.9	86.4	79.6	100.0
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	251.5	51.5	86.4	79.8	97.6	0.0
6	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	243.1	69.2	81.8	48.4	82.5	0.0
7	University of Science and Technology of China China	242.1	81.0	74.6	49.3	76.6	0.0
8	Peking University Peking University China	240.2	52.0	82.0	58.3	94.5	0.0
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	239.7	77.2	77.1	51.1	75.3	0.0
10	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	237.1	96.5	70.5	48.1	60.6	0.0
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	236.6	55.0	76.8	81.5	74.4	70.7
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	236.3	47.2	79.9	73.2	94.5	0.0
13	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	236.1	48.5	83.2	69.6	90.6	0.0
14	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	235.5	82.3	72.7	54.2	69.8	0.0
15	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	235.4	47.4	89.2	89.9	80.8	0.0
16	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	233.4	79.0	72.0	51.5	72.1	0.0
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	229.6	45.5	77.2	77.6	73.0	91.3
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	227.4	55.9	85.6	82.7	69.3	0.0
19	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	223.9	42.2	83.8	53.8	87.2	0.0
20	Soochow University Soochow University China	222.0	41.9	92.2	58.4	76.2	0.0
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	222.0	52.1	77.7	69.9	78.3	0.0
20	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong Australia	222.0	36.7	100.0	92.2	66.8	0.0
23	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	219.9	48.0	90.2	62.0	69.3	0.0
24	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	219.6	27.7	98.8	82.5	76.6	0.0
25	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	218.7	50.9	80.6	79.6	57.2	70.7
26	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	216.1	37.2	100.0	60.0	66.8	0.0
27	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology China	214.0	45.9	84.2	68.4	70.2	0.0
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	213.6	70.2	70.6	56.0	61.6	0.0
29	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	212.3	76.1	69.2	52.7	56.6	0.0
30	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	211.3	42.0	80.6	85.1	71.6	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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