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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	298.4	100.0	84.0	64.2	100.0
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	236.4	73.8	79.0	81.8	77.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	236.0	65.8	88.5	64.0	86.6
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	233.1	69.8	78.5	57.0	83.5
5	Yale University Yale University United States	228.7	68.8	82.5	63.3	77.9
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	220.2	62.1	85.6	52.2	79.1
7	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	219.3	75.4	74.4	77.4	61.2
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	219.2	68.8	77.3	54.5	72.0
9	Columbia University Columbia University United States	216.9	68.8	78.9	61.3	68.1
10	New York University New York University United States	214.0	61.8	81.9	60.4	74.4
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	208.6	58.0	84.6	85.6	70.7
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	207.6	48.6	84.5	58.7	86.6
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	207.1	71.9	84.2	53.9	51.8
14	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	202.4	64.0	86.6	79.3	55.1
15	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	200.7	58.9	83.2	80.4	62.7
16	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	197.1	68.0	81.1	83.2	46.3
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	194.7	56.4	83.8	55.4	62.7
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	192.2	52.5	87.2	85.6	61.2
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	191.5	62.3	77.7	57.0	53.5
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	190.8	52.2	87.1	62.1	62.7
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	190.1	56.6	79.0	59.3	59.8
22	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	188.8	64.7	76.6	53.1	48.2
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	188.7	57.0	78.6	57.2	58.2
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	187.4	56.1	83.6	63.6	55.1
25	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	186.5	51.5	75.3	74.8	64.1
26	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	185.4	53.8	80.1	49.5	59.8
27	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	183.6	57.7	75.2	76.8	51.8
28	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	182.7	65.2	78.9	54.1	40.1
29	Duke University Duke University United States	182.3	57.5	79.6	62.9	50.0
30	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	180.9	61.0	75.6	52.7	46.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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