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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	299.1	100.0	85.4	63.7	100.0
2	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	298.1	95.2	100.0	53.4	100.0
3	New York University New York University United States	288.6	98.0	83.4	68.8	93.1
4	Columbia University Columbia University United States	282.4	95.2	70.0	73.9	97.3
5	Harvard University Harvard University United States	269.2	85.1	83.8	65.1	93.1
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	266.9	86.3	86.2	63.4	87.9
7	Boston College Boston College United States	263.2	83.1	96.1	63.7	84.1
8	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	261.1	85.1	87.6	71.0	82.5
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	260.7	84.3	81.7	69.6	86.4
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	249.5	86.7	74.8	90.7	73.0
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	248.5	86.7	79.3	67.3	72.1
12	Duke University Duke University United States	244.2	73.7	97.7	64.5	78.3
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	244.0	84.7	82.9	62.2	69.3
14	Cornell University Cornell University United States	241.7	80.3	81.1	58.5	74.8
15	London Business School London Business School United Kingdom	240.1	73.3	100.0	99.6	70.2
16	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom	239.4	80.7	70.7	81.7	74.8
17	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	238.4	72.4	92.2	71.9	76.6
18	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	232.0	81.9	78.8	54.2	64.3
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	227.8	74.6	79.0	71.1	69.3
20	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	226.7	70.0	89.0	60.2	71.2
21	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	224.2	72.4	71.7	68.3	73.0
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	223.1	69.0	86.6	60.4	70.2
23	University of Washington University of Washington United States	222.6	72.4	85.8	58.2	65.3
24	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	220.0	69.0	84.8	76.9	66.3
25	Tilburg University Tilburg University Netherlands	217.3	71.4	84.3	91.7	58.9
26	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	217.1	77.7	77.6	63.4	55.4
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	216.6	67.6	74.9	66.5	71.2
28	HEC Paris HEC Paris France	214.0	64.5	87.3	92.8	64.3
29	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	213.7	84.3	66.4	77.9	46.2
30	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	211.0	70.9	66.9	89.3	62.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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