Discover the World's Top Grad Schools of 2022

By Tess Campbell Modified on April 16, 2022
Tags : Academics | Rankings

QS Top Universities has released their top graduate schools of 2022 based on program categories like engineering, medicine, and more!

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Are you considering applying to graduate school? While school rankings don’t give you all the information you need, it can help you get a better picture of schools you might be considering.

QS Top Universities has released their 2022 world university rankings based on subject, so whether you’re pursuing life sciences and medicine, arts and humanities, or another program, you’ll find the top five schools in each category. Discover if schools you’re interested in have made the list, and explore schools you may not have even considered!

Arts & humanities

If you’re interested in an arts and humanities program, these are the highest ranked schools in this subject:

School World Rank
University of Oxford 1
University of Cambridge 2
Harvard University 3
University of California, Berkeley 4
Stanford University 5

Engineering & technology

Engineering and technology programs are some of the most popular subjects to study. If you want to study from the best of the best, check out these top five schools:

School World Rank
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
University of Cambridge 2
University of Oxford 3
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 4
Stanford University 5

Life sciences & medicine

Think a health-related program is for you? Get a graduate degree from one of these schools to excel in your studies:

School World Rank
Harvard University 1
University of Oxford 2
Johns Hopkins University 3
University of Cambridge 4
Stanford University 5

Natural sciences

Are you interested in programs like marine sciences, physics, biology, chemistry, or other natural sciences? These may be the schools for you:

School World Rank
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Harvard University 2
University of Cambridge 3
University of Oxford 4
Stanford University 5

Social sciences & management

Accounting, law, business management, anthropology — these are only some of the programs you can find in social sciences and management subjects. Check out the top universities in this subject:

School World Rank
Harvard University 1
University of Oxford 2
The London School of Economics and Political Science 3
University of Cambridge 4
Stanford University 5

Final takeaways

Based on these lists, schools like the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, and Harvard University are doing well across the board. These could be great schools to check out no matter what program you’re interested in. You can also see that some schools are good at the subjects they’re known for: Johns Hopkins University excels in medicine and Nanyang Technological University excels in engineering and technology.

While rankings are great in helping differentiate between your selection of schools, be sure to do more research on what each school can offer you! If you’re curious as to how QS Top Universities decided on their top five schools, read more about how these rankings were compiled using their methodology.

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