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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	282.6	100.0	71.7	54.2	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	226.7	62.3	76.8	81.7	71.2
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	220.7	61.8	70.2	71.9	74.2
4	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	216.2	49.9	97.8	76.2	53.2
5	Xidian University Xidian University China	209.8	55.9	70.5	53.0	72.8
6	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	207.6	63.5	63.5	70.1	66.6
7	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) France	190.5	46.1	77.3	83.5	50.4
8	University of Iceland University of Iceland Iceland	189.0	31.3	100.0	99.0	37.9
9	University of Twente University of Twente Netherlands	188.2	49.4	71.3	89.5	49.6
10	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	186.4	33.1	100.0	62.9	40.7
11	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	180.9	35.2	88.5	86.7	39.8
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	180.5	43.0	74.0	68.4	49.9
12	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	180.5	32.1	92.2	94.5	37.3
14	Boston University Boston University United States	179.6	30.2	98.9	77.9	34.9
15	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	179.2	39.7	79.5	72.2	45.5
16	Hunan University Hunan University China	177.9	28.0	100.0	71.8	35.6
17	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	176.7	39.1	75.2	88.5	44.7
18	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	176.4	42.7	69.3	74.1	49.6
19	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University United States	174.6	28.9	92.2	93.2	34.9
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	173.5	35.0	82.0	91.0	38.3
21	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura Spain	173.2	26.5	95.5	88.5	33.5
22	South Dakota State University South Dakota State University United States	171.9	30.9	94.1	65.2	33.9
23	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	171.6	34.4	82.1	71.6	40.7
24	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	170.7	42.4	68.6	73.5	45.0
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	170.7	27.5	93.7	85.5	32.4
26	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	170.5	40.2	68.8	63.1	48.9
27	University of Trento University of Trento Italy	169.0	30.2	81.7	83.1	40.4
28	University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston United States	167.8	23.1	98.1	84.5	29.6
29	University of Oklahoma - Norman University of Oklahoma - Norman United States	167.7	33.9	80.1	83.9	37.0
30	Peking University Peking University China	164.8	40.2	69.4	63.7	42.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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