ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, an independent organization dedicated to researching higher education intelligence, has released the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) for 2022. The sixth edition of GRAS unveiled rankings across five categories: Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Fifty-four subjects from over 1,800 universities across 96 countries and regions feature in the rankings.
The GRAS rankings employ various academic indicators and third-party data to analyze the performance of world universities in respective subjects. Academic indicators include research output, research influence, international collaboration, research quality, and international academic awards.
Here are GRAS 2022 rankings across five major subjects:
- Mathematics
University
Country
Ranking
Paris-Saclay University
France
1
Princeton University
US
2
Sorbonne University
UK
3
University of Cambridge
UK
4
University of Oxford
UK
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
US
6
Stanford University
US
7
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
8
New York University
US
9
The University of Texas at Austin
US
10
- Computer Science & Engineering
University
Country
Ranking
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
US
1
Stanford University
US
2
University of California, Berkeley
US
3
Carnegie Mellon University
US
4
Tsinghua University
China
5
Harvard University
US
6
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
7
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
8
University of Oxford
UK
9
Princeton University
US
10
- Biological Sciences
University
Country
Ranking
Harvard University
US
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
US
2
Stanford University
US
3
Rockefeller University
US
4
University of Cambridge
UK
5
University of California, San Francisco
US
6
University of Washington
US
7
Johns Hopkins University
US
8
Columbia University
US
9
University College London
UK
10
- Economics
University
Country
Ranking
University of Chicago
US
1
Harvard University
US
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
US
3
Stanford University
US
4
University of California, Berkeley
US
5
Columbia University
US
6
Princeton University
US
7
London School of Economics and Political Science
UK
8
Yale University
US
9
New York University
US
10
- Management
University
Country
Ranking
Harvard University
US
1
National University of Singapore
Singapore
2
University of Pennsylvania
US
3
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
4
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
5
INSEAD
France
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
US
7
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
US
8
Arizona State University
US
9
New York University
US
10
Other popular subjects ranked are Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Business Administration, Public Health, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics, Finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, and others.
