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.
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #42
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #36
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #47
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #45
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #50
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #49
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #34
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #37
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #29
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #43
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #24
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #33
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #27
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #38
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #26
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #31
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #25
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #48
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #30
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #35
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #32
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #20
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #28
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #22
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #19
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #17
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #16
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #21
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #23
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Last year's QS by Subject ranking: #12
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #15
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #10
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #18
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #7
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #5
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #13
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #14
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #6
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #11
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #9
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #8
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #4
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Last year's QS by subject ranking: #3
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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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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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50. Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
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49. University of Georgia
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48. South China Agricultural University
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47. Kyoto University (Japan)
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46. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
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45. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan)
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44. Kansas State University
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43. The University of Western Australia
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42. The University of Melbourne (Australia)
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41. Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland)
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40. Seoul National University (South Korea)
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39. Aarhus University (Denmark)
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38. Nanjing Agricultural University (China)
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37. Estonian University of Life Sciences
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36. University of Helsinki (Finland)
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35. University of Tokyo
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34. Penn State University
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33. Technical University of Munich (Germany)
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32. University of Minnesota
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31. Oregon State University
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30. UMass Amherst
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29. Montpellier SupAgro (France)
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28. University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
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27. University of Göttingen (Germany)
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26. Universit Paris-Saclay (France)
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25. Ohio State University
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24. University of Guelph (Canada)
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23. University of Florida
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22. N.C. State University
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21. University of Hohenheim (Germany)
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20. University of British Columbia
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19. The University of Queensland (Australia)
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18. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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17. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (Austria)
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16. University of Reading (U.K.)
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15. Texas A&M University
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14. Michigan State University
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13. University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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12. University of California-Berkeley
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11. China Agricultural University
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10. University of Wisconsin-Madison
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9. Iowa State University
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8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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7. Ghent University (Belgium)
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6. Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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5. Purdue University
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4. Cornell University
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3. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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2. UC Davis
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1. Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
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.”
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