50. Colorado State University
Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list.
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49. Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (China)
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48. University of Helsinki (Finland)
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47. University of Western Australia
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #43
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46. Aarhus University (Denmark)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #39
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45. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #46
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44. Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #33
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43. Oregon State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #31
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42. Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #41
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41. South China Agricultural University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #48
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40. Nanjing Agricultural University (China)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #38
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39. Penn State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #34
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38. Universit Paris-Saclay (France)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #26
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37. UMass Amherst
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #30
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36. University of Tokyo
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #35
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35. Zhejiang University (China)
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34. University of Minnesota
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #32
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33. University of Melbourne (Australia)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #42
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32. University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #28
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31. University of Hohenheim (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #21
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30. North Carolina State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #22
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29. KU Leuven (Belgium)
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28. Ohio State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #25
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27. University of Reading (U.K.)
Last year's QS by Subject ranking: #16
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26. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (Austria)
year's QS by subject ranking: #17
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25. University of Göttingen (Germany)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #27
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24. University of Guelph (Canada)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #24
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23. University of British Columbia
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #20
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22. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #18
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21. University of Florida
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #23
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20. L'Institut Agro (L'Institut Agro Dijon, L'Institut Agro Montpellier, L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers) - France
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19. The University of Queensland (Australia)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #19
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18. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #10
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17. Texas A&M University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #15
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16. Michigan State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #14
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15. University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #13
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14. Iowa State University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #9
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13. University of California-Berkeley
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #12
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12. ETH Zurich- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #8
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11. Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #6
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10. University of Cambridge (U.K.)
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9. China Agricultural University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #11
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8. Ghent University (Belgium)
7. University of Oxford (U.K.)
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6. Purdue University
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #5
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5. Harvard University
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4. 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 more than a decade ago, UC Davis has finished at either No. 1 or No. 2.
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1. Wageningen University (The Nertherlands)
Last year's QS by subject ranking: #1
The school in The Netherlands scores the top spot again -- now eight years running!
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It’s time again for the world’s best agriculture colleges to raise their hands. Who’s at the head of the class? Some schools stand out more 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 from universities across the globe covering 55 different disciplines. According to QS, this year’s ranking features different academic programs from 1,559 institutions – 64 universities of which are new.
Five indicators are used to determine subject rankings. They are as follows: Academic reputation; Employer reputation; Research citations per paper (via Elsevier’s Scopus); H-index; and International research network (by broad faculty area).
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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.”
2024 marks the 12th 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 multiple new entries that made the Top 10; which schools that made a comeback to the list; and more. The biggest question is: Was Wageningen University finally dethroned from its top spot?
Scan the photo gallery above to count down the World’s Top 50 Agriculture & Forestry Colleges for 2024.