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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	266.5	94.6	71.5	73.2	85.7
2	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	266.0	79.1	72.0	74.8	100.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	261.8	92.6	81.0	71.9	73.9
4	Southeast University Southeast University China	260.6	100.0	78.8	77.2	66.4
5	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	260.3	80.4	81.5	75.7	83.2
6	Tongji University Tongji University China	251.0	81.8	69.3	75.4	84.9
7	Beihang University Beihang University China	231.0	67.1	82.0	72.5	67.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	222.2	63.8	76.6	77.2	66.4
8	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	222.2	53.5	82.6	80.3	70.0
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	222.1	69.8	76.3	75.6	60.9
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	221.1	59.8	80.4	88.8	63.1
12	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	219.9	58.1	75.7	78.4	70.5
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	216.2	58.6	74.2	72.0	69.0
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	214.4	60.0	75.5	68.2	65.3
15	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	211.3	69.9	78.8	88.0	45.0
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	210.2	56.7	82.6	74.1	56.1
17	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	205.3	63.0	82.0	84.5	43.5
18	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University China	204.5	66.2	72.1	73.6	51.5
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	203.0	49.9	80.8	69.0	58.5
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	202.4	47.2	76.3	81.4	62.6
20	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	202.4	71.9	72.7	71.4	43.5
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	202.4	62.0	81.1	79.2	43.5
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	200.9	54.5	80.1	60.8	54.2
24	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	198.1	55.0	83.7	67.9	45.8
25	Xidian University Xidian University China	197.8	77.4	89.7	81.5	14.5
26	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	197.1	59.1	68.0	76.0	54.8
27	University of South Florida University of South Florida United States	196.6	42.2	89.6	69.7	50.9
28	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	194.2	67.1	82.0	86.9	27.7
29	Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands	193.9	48.5	71.1	78.8	58.5
30	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	193.8	51.4	70.0	78.4	56.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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