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)

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Beihang University Beihang University China	277.5	100.0	77.7	48.3	90.2
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	250.2	83.5	80.2	45.0	77.6
3	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	236.2	72.4	68.8	42.7	86.5
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	223.4	71.0	81.3	46.3	61.8
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	222.6	33.4	85.3	59.3	92.0
6	National University of Defense Technology China	218.3	69.4	77.3	39.5	63.8
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	216.0	52.8	78.9	44.2	75.4
8	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	208.5	42.6	72.3	80.1	77.6
9	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	205.2	37.5	74.4	65.6	80.1
10	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	204.4	64.7	74.4	48.9	55.6
11	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	196.7	28.1	70.8	51.7	87.4
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	193.6	26.7	58.1	44.1	100.0
13	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	180.8	22.7	67.8	56.1	79.1
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	180.0	24.3	71.5	49.4	74.4
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	179.1	29.0	70.7	53.9	68.7
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	177.0	29.7	76.1	57.2	59.8
17	Stanford University Stanford University United States	174.6	21.2	86.8	70.3	52.6
18	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	173.7	24.9	73.4	92.2	57.0
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	173.3	25.4	81.8	91.6	47.7
20	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	172.9	18.5	70.4	79.2	68.1
21	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	172.4	27.9	73.8	83.3	54.1
22	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel	170.6	31.2	61.0	67.3	65.0
23	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	169.3	24.9	59.8	62.3	72.1
24	Cranfield University Cranfield University United Kingdom	166.0	37.0	67.2	74.7	46.9
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	165.6	15.4	82.3	72.7	53.3
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	165.0	22.7	100.0	55.6	31.2
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	165.0	35.9	70.6	49.7	48.6
28	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	164.3	23.5	78.2	87.7	45.1
28	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	164.3	33.4	56.8	61.4	61.8
30	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	163.9	36.1	77.7	64.8	37.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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