50. Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #42
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49. University of Georgia
Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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48. South China Agricultural University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #36
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47. Kyoto University (Japan)
Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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46. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #47
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45. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan)
Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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44. Kansas State University
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43. The University of Western Australia
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #45
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42. The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #50
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41. Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #49
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40. Seoul National University (South Korea)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #34
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39. Aarhus University (Denmark)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #37
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38. Nanjing Agricultural University (China)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #29
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37. Estonian University of Life Sciences
Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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36. University of Helsinki (Finland)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #43
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35. University of Tokyo
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #24
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34. Penn State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #33
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33. Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #27
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32. University of Minnesota
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #38
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31. Oregon State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #26
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30. UMass Amherst
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #31
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29. Montpellier SupAgro (France)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #25
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28. University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #48
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27. University of Göttingen (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #30
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26. Universit Paris-Saclay (France)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #35
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25. Ohio State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #32
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24. University of Guelph (Canada)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #20
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23. University of Florida
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #28
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22. N.C. State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #22
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21. University of Hohenheim (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #19
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20. University of British Columbia
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #17
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19. The University of Queensland (Australia)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #16
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18. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #21
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17. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (Austria)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #23
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16. University of Reading (U.K.)
Last year's QS by Subject ranking: #12
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15. Texas A&M University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #15
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14. Michigan State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #10
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13. University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #18
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12. University of California-Berkeley
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #7
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11. China Agricultural University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #5
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10. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #13
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9. Iowa State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #14
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8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #6
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7. Ghent University (Belgium)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #11
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6. Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #9
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5. Purdue University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #8
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4. Cornell University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #4
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3. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #3
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2. UC Davis
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #2
Since the ranking by subject in Agriculture & Forestry was first launched by QS a decade ago, UC Davis has finished at either No. 1 or No. 2.
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1. Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #1
The school in The Netherlands scores the top spot again -- now seven years running!
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It’s time again for the world’s best agriculture colleges to stand up and be counted. Some higher learning institutions shine brighter than others, according to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which has just released its latest QS World University Ranking by Subject report.
Compiled and presented annually by the U.K.-based education marketing and networking company, the comprehensive listing is based on a methodology that measures multiple indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact gathered from universities across the globe covering 54 different disciplines. According to QS, this year biggest marks its biggest ranking yet, featuring more than 15,700 different academic programs from 1,594 institutions – 103 of which are new.
Each of the subject rankings is calculated using multiple sources. Per QS, the first two of these are global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions’ international reputation in each subject. The second two indicators assess research impact based on research citations per paper and H-index in the relevant subject. These are sourced from Elsevier’s Scopus research citations database. Lastly, International research network (by broad faculty area) fleshes out the sustained international research collaboration of an institution.
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QS does provide a disclaimer regarding its rankings: “The QS World University Rankings by Subject is also not an extensive list of universities. Just because a university doesn’t feature on a university ranking, it does not mean that it is a ‘bad’ university. Merely that it doesn’t score highly enough on QS’s chosen indicators to feature in that particular rankings table.”
2023 marks the 11th consecutive year the organization has produced rankings specifically for the field of Agriculture & Forestry.
So, what are the best agriculture colleges in the world right now? See new entries; which schools that made a comeback to the list; as well as a shakeup among the Top 10.
Scan the photo gallery above to count down the World’s Top 50 Agriculture & Forestry Colleges for 2023.