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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	299.2	100.0	76.4	73.8	100.0	40.1
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	262.7	69.1	76.2	71.7	86.5	82.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	260.9	62.2	84.1	71.8	80.2	100.0
4	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	233.4	54.3	84.0	87.9	77.5	0.0
5	University College London University College London United Kingdom	225.8	65.0	82.4	87.7	60.8	0.0
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	222.8	65.2	73.7	79.9	51.9	80.2
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	221.3	51.7	82.9	85.9	61.5	40.1
8	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	219.1	58.9	75.0	63.3	60.1	62.0
9	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	216.6	52.8	79.0	66.0	59.1	62.7
10	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	215.9	48.8	80.0	76.2	71.9	0.0
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	215.1	53.0	78.1	69.3	70.1	0.0
12	Leiden University Leiden University Netherlands	213.6	47.2	95.2	82.9	54.6	0.0
13	New York University New York University United States	212.2	48.6	77.5	66.0	59.1	69.4
14	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University Germany	212.0	52.3	81.6	72.9	63.5	0.0
15	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	209.6	52.4	77.9	74.3	64.5	0.0
16	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	207.9	42.6	95.5	83.5	40.0	65.5
17	Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine United States	206.8	59.2	76.8	58.1	45.8	66.8
18	Duke University Duke University United States	206.5	48.9	82.3	65.4	45.4	84.5
19	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	206.2	46.8	94.9	88.2	46.7	0.0
20	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	206.0	49.3	78.8	77.3	62.5	0.0
21	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	205.3	48.1	80.2	58.0	52.3	65.5
22	Cornell University Cornell University United States	199.0	45.0	79.5	66.5	61.2	0.0
23	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	198.8	38.7	78.7	65.8	49.8	92.6
24	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	197.1	47.4	75.4	79.6	58.3	0.0
25	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	196.0	46.7	75.8	58.3	61.8	0.0
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	195.8	37.4	74.4	63.0	53.5	89.6
27	Yale University Yale University United States	193.3	47.6	79.3	68.3	48.1	23.1
28	University of Washington University of Washington United States	192.6	46.1	77.6	64.4	43.0	65.5
29	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna Austria	191.9	46.9	78.4	88.4	48.9	0.0
30	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	190.5	43.3	82.0	82.4	43.5	26.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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