Life Sciences & Medicine
Agriculture & Forestry Ranking
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands | 98.2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 96.4 | 100.0 | 87.6 | |
| 2 | University of California, Davis | United States of America | 90.3 | 92.1 | 88.4 | 91.6 | 93.7 | 76.5 | |
| 3 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Sweden | 89.3 | 91.9 | 83.2 | 91.2 | 88.8 | 79.8 | |
| 4 | 1 | Cornell University | United States of America | 86.2 | 86.1 | 83.0 | 94.3 | 93.4 | 66.9 |
| 5 | 1 | China Agricultural University | China (Mainland) | 84.2 | 86.8 | 67.8 | 91.0 | 96.5 | 58.9 |
| 6 | Purdue University | United States of America | 81.9 | 81.4 | 87.5 | 91.1 | 84.3 | 61.5 | |
| 7 | 5 | Iowa State University | United States of America | 81.5 | 79.9 | 86.6 | 93.1 | 85.6 | 60.8 |
| 8 | 1 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 80.3 | 75.8 | 86.8 | 94.8 | 85.8 | 66.5 |
| 9 | 1 | Ghent University | Belgium | 79.9 | 74.2 | 73.5 | 92.4 | 89.3 | 82.4 |
| 10 | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Norway | 79.3 | 82.3 | 78.2 | 88.6 | 71.5 | 63.2 | |
| 11 | 2 | Texas A&M University | United States of America | 79.2 | 79.4 | 75.9 | 85.3 | 82.0 | 67.8 |
| 12 | 1 | Michigan State University | United States of America | 78.4 | 75.7 | 60.2 | 92.0 | 90.3 | 71.7 |
| 13 | 4 | University of Florida | United States of America | 77.5 | 74.4 | 44.3 | 87.8 | 94.7 | 84.7 |
| 14 | 16 | University of Guelph | Canada | 77.3 | 72.9 | 88.8 | 89.8 | 84.8 | 57.4 |
| 14 | 11 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 77.3 | 71.8 | 77.3 | 92.5 | 89.3 | 64.2 |
| 16 | 7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 77.2 | 69.5 | 86.3 | 94.8 | 88.5 | 62.8 |
| 17 | 9 | University of Hohenheim | Germany | 76.8 | 75.0 | 70.7 | 90.2 | 78.7 | 69.1 |
| 18 | 3 | L'Institut Agro (L'Institut Agro Dijon, L'Institut Agro Montpellier, L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers) | France | 76.7 | 71.1 | 71.7 | 89.4 | 81.8 | 83.2 |
| 19 | 1 | University of Reading | United Kingdom | 76.5 | 75.7 | 74.6 | 91.6 | 74.0 | 63.0 |
| 20 | 6 | Nanjing Agricultural University | China (Mainland) | 76.4 | 72.8 | 61.4 | 91.5 | 93.9 | 60.9 |
| 21 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 76.1 | 67.4 | 69.8 | 94.0 | 87.4 | 82.2 | |
| 22 | 3 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States of America | 75.9 | 73.8 | 65.9 | 88.5 | 84.8 | 63.7 |
| 22 | 4 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States of America | 75.9 | 74.6 | 53.1 | 90.8 | 87.7 | 65.3 |
| 24 | 8 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 75.8 | 65.5 | 74.4 | 92.0 | 90.8 | 81.7 |
| 25 | 6 | North Carolina State University | United States of America | 74.5 | 71.1 | 65.6 | 88.2 | 85.0 | 63.9 |
| 26 | 11 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 73.5 | 60.4 | 81.2 | 92.9 | 94.4 | 70.8 |
| 27 | 8 | University of Minnesota (System) | United States of America | 73.3 | 64.9 | 74.1 | 92.4 | 90.1 | 60.7 |
| 28 | South China Agricultural University | China (Mainland) | 72.9 | 68.9 | 79.0 | 89.3 | 87.4 | 40.6 | |
| 29 | 5 | The Ohio State University | United States of America | 72.6 | 68.5 | 66.6 | 87.1 | 79.5 | 67.1 |
| 30 | 16 | Oregon State University | United States of America | 72.3 | 71.4 | 48.9 | 88.0 | 81.8 | 61.9 |
| 30 | 2 | University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna | Austria | 72.3 | 70.6 | 49.4 | 89.9 | 77.2 | 70.1 |
| 32 | 6 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 72.1 | 63.9 | 77.9 | 81.9 | 87.9 | 68.8 |
| 33 | 1 | University of Agriculture, Faisalabad | Pakistan | 72.0 | 59.8 | 84.0 | 92.4 | 88.0 | 66.0 |
| 34 | 3 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 71.2 | 61.1 | 75.2 | 90.8 | 81.2 | 73.6 |
| 34 | 9 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 71.2 | 62.4 | 60.3 | 90.9 | 88.0 | 71.4 |
| 36 | — | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | Spain | 70.8 | 66.0 | 68.8 | 91.3 | 76.5 | 57.8 |
| 37 | 14 | Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University | China (Mainland) | 70.4 | 62.6 | 51.2 | 90.6 | 93.3 | 63.5 |
| 38 | 3 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 70.3 | 62.8 | 49.6 | 91.1 | 86.9 | 72.1 |
| 39 | 13 | Pennsylvania State University | United States of America | 70.2 | 61.9 | 63.6 | 90.6 | 84.0 | 66.7 |
| 40 | 6 | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | United States of America | 70.0 | 64.0 | 64.6 | 88.4 | 80.7 | 62.2 |
| 41 | — | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 69.2 | 55.5 | 63.7 | 94.4 | 98.4 | 61.4 |
| 41 | 8 | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology | Japan | 69.2 | 72.1 | 71.6 | 79.7 | 57.8 | 53.3 |
| 43 | 26 | University of Alberta | Canada | 68.9 | 62.6 | 70.4 | 88.1 | 80.3 | 52.6 |
| 43 | 2 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 68.9 | 59.1 | 59.3 | 93.9 | 84.6 | 66.5 |
| 43 | 50 | Estonian University of Life Sciences | Estonia | 68.9 | 66.6 | 77.2 | 85.6 | 63.8 | 54.5 |
| 46 | 8 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Italy | 68.8 | 59.1 | 75.7 | 87.5 | 79.5 | 66.7 |
| 46 | 7 | Université Paris-Saclay | France | 68.8 | 56.4 | 61.4 | 91.3 | 85.5 | 78.9 |
| 48 | 1 | IPB University (aka Bogor Agricultural University) | Indonesia | 68.7 | 72.8 | 90.4 | 68.9 | 63.1 | 34.3 |
| 49 | 18 | Massey University | New Zealand | 68.3 | 61.2 | 77.6 | 86.6 | 74.9 | 57.4 |
| 50 | 2 | Kansas State University | United States of America | 68.1 | 60.9 | 67.0 | 88.0 | 78.9 | 59.0 |
| 50 | 13 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 68.1 | 54.6 | 63.1 | 94.4 | 89.9 | 68.9 |
| 52 | 3 | The University of Georgia | United States of America | 67.9 | 63.1 | 33.1 | 87.3 | 85.3 | 71.0 |
| 53 | 11 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 67.6 | 58.7 | 65.4 | 92.1 | 79.3 | 59.8 |
| 54 | 33 | University of Saskatchewan | Canada | 67.4 | 61.8 | 59.7 | 89.1 | 77.8 | 54.9 |
| 54 | 1 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Germany | 67.4 | 56.7 | 68.1 | 88.9 | 77.2 | 73.6 |
| 56 | 18 | Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW (WULS-SGGW) | Poland | 67.3 | 60.9 | 69.1 | 85.2 | 73.5 | 61.1 |
| 57 | 2 | Washington State University | United States of America | 67.2 | 63.3 | 43.2 | 89.2 | 79.7 | 59.0 |
| 58 | 8 | Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague | Czechia | 66.9 | 57.8 | 58.2 | 84.6 | 76.3 | 80.3 |
| 58 | — | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | Brazil | 66.9 | 54.0 | 73.2 | 92.6 | 87.7 | 55.1 |
| 60 | 19 | Huazhong Agricultural University | China (Mainland) | 66.7 | 52.8 | 61.7 | 93.0 | 93.7 | 61.4 |
| 60 | 27 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 66.7 | 49.9 | 81.8 | 93.0 | 90.1 | 61.2 |
| 62 | 20 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States of America | 66.5 | 56.2 | 54.7 | 98.8 | 86.9 | 50.3 |
| 63 | 7 | Colorado State University | United States of America | 66.4 | 58.1 | 50.5 | 91.7 | 84.6 | 58.3 |
| 64 | 8 | Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) | Malaysia | 66.3 | 56.8 | 66.4 | 85.7 | 82.2 | 60.9 |
| 65 | 14 | McGill University | Canada | 66.1 | 52.1 | 76.7 | 93.0 | 85.1 | 56.7 |
| 66 | 5 | Università di Padova | Italy | 65.7 | 54.6 | 73.5 | 87.0 | 77.8 | 63.0 |
| 66 | 27 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 65.7 | 60.0 | 66.0 | 85.1 | 76.3 | 48.9 |
| 66 | 39 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 65.7 | 54.7 | 83.0 | 83.3 | 80.5 | 54.5 |
| 69 | 11 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 65.6 | 51.4 | 79.1 | 88.2 | 77.8 | 70.9 |
| 70 | 33 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 65.5 | 51.2 | 81.5 | 92.5 | 83.6 | 53.2 |
| 71 | — | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom | 65.3 | 54.7 | 67.1 | 97.5 | 78.2 | 48.5 |
| 71 | — | Adelaide University | Australia | 65.3 | 54.4 | 66.3 | 87.8 | 80.7 | 62.2 |
| 71 | 16 | University of Florence | Italy | 65.3 | 58.6 | 54.6 | 87.6 | 76.1 | 60.2 |
| 74 | 14 | Kasetsart University | Thailand | 65.1 | 60.0 | 70.4 | 79.6 | 71.7 | 53.8 |
| 75 | Université de Montpellier | France | 65.0 | 46.9 | 43.0 | 89.5 | 92.0 | 100.0 | |
| 76 | 24 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 64.9 | 50.4 | 77.7 | 90.4 | 84.3 | 57.1 |
| 77 | 15 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 64.8 | 54.7 | 58.3 | 92.5 | 78.7 | 59.2 |
| 77 | 1 | University of Missouri, Columbia | United States of America | 64.8 | 56.9 | 60.9 | 90.9 | 78.7 | 48.1 |
| 79 | 35 | Kyoto University | Japan | 64.4 | 56.4 | 70.7 | 81.1 | 73.7 | 58.8 |
| 79 | 22 | Beijing Forestry University | China (Mainland) | 64.4 | 65.1 | 28.9 | 83.8 | 78.9 | 45.8 |
| 81 | 18 | The University of Arizona | United States of America | 64.0 | 54.7 | 50.5 | 89.3 | 79.1 | 63.5 |
| 82 | 19 | Lincoln University | New Zealand | 63.9 | 55.7 | 68.0 | 91.2 | 74.2 | 44.1 |
| 83 | 6 | University of California, Riverside | United States of America | 63.8 | 57.4 | 44.4 | 92.9 | 78.9 | 49.2 |
| 83 | 20 | Yale University | United States of America | 63.8 | 48.3 | 84.8 | 92.2 | 79.1 | 54.8 |
| 83 | 2 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 63.8 | 56.5 | 71.6 | 85.6 | 73.5 | 45.3 |
| 86 | 7 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | Spain | 63.3 | 54.3 | 66.0 | 90.5 | 72.2 | 51.6 |
| 87 | 12 | Harper Adams University | United Kingdom | 63.2 | 63.7 | 72.5 | 75.6 | 58.2 | 39.9 |
| 88 | 10 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States of America | 63.1 | 59.3 | 32.0 | 86.8 | 78.2 | 55.1 |
| 89 | 62 | Universidade de Vigo | Spain | 63.0 | 49.6 | 56.4 | 93.5 | 80.3 | 64.7 |
| 89 | 13 | University of Toronto | Canada | 63.0 | 50.0 | 73.5 | 87.2 | 79.5 | 56.6 |
| 89 | 7 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | Germany | 63.0 | 50.7 | 64.8 | 95.5 | 76.7 | 53.7 |
| 89 | 12 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 63.0 | 56.1 | 81.1 | 85.8 | 67.0 | 38.9 |
| 93 | 20 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 62.9 | 54.4 | 71.3 | 80.9 | 71.7 | 57.2 |
| 93 | 11 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 62.9 | 48.7 | 64.8 | 94.7 | 80.1 | 58.1 |
| 95 | 11 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | 62.8 | 44.4 | 52.3 | 95.4 | 90.6 | 75.1 |
| 96 | — | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 62.5 | 51.6 | 79.5 | 77.0 | 77.4 | 56.2 |
| 97 | 4 | MATE Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Hungary | 62.4 | 55.2 | 60.2 | 79.6 | 67.3 | 67.3 |
| 98 | 38 | Jiangnan University | China (Mainland) | 62.3 | 54.5 | 26.6 | 92.9 | 91.6 | 47.4 |
| 99 | 15 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States of America | 62.1 | 47.3 | 56.3 | 97.9 | 86.3 | 51.8 |
| 99 | 2 | UNESP | Brazil | 62.1 | 53.9 | 68.9 | 78.0 | 78.2 | 48.2 |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wageningen University & Research
Netherlands
University of California, Davis
United States of America
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
Cornell University
United States of America
China Agricultural University
China (Mainland)
Purdue University
United States of America
Iowa State University
United States of America
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Ghent University
Belgium
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Norway
Texas A&M University
United States of America
Michigan State University
United States of America
University of Florida
United States of America
University of Guelph
Canada
University of British Columbia
Canada
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
University of Hohenheim
Germany
L'Institut Agro (L'Institut Agro Dijon, L'Institut Agro Montpellier, L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers)
France
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Nanjing Agricultural University
China (Mainland)
University of Göttingen
Germany
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
United States of America
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States of America
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
North Carolina State University
United States of America
The University of Queensland
Australia
University of Minnesota (System)
United States of America
South China Agricultural University
China (Mainland)
The Ohio State University
United States of America
Oregon State University
United States of America
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna
Austria
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
Pakistan
KU Leuven
Belgium
Aarhus University
Denmark
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Spain
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
China (Mainland)
University of Helsinki
Finland
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
United States of America
Zhejiang University
China (Mainland)
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Japan
University of Alberta
Canada
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Estonia
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Italy
Université Paris-Saclay
France
IPB University (aka Bogor Agricultural University)
Indonesia
Massey University
New Zealand
Kansas State University
United States of America
The University of Western Australia
Australia
The University of Georgia
United States of America
University College Dublin
Ireland
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Germany
Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW (WULS-SGGW)
Poland
Washington State University
United States of America
Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
Czechia
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Brazil
Huazhong Agricultural University
China (Mainland)
The University of Melbourne
Australia
University of Massachusetts Amherst
United States of America
Colorado State University
United States of America
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Malaysia
McGill University
Canada
Università di Padova
Italy
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
The University of Tokyo
Japan
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia
University of East Anglia (UEA)
United Kingdom
Adelaide University
Australia
University of Florence
Italy
Kasetsart University
Thailand
Université de Montpellier
France
The University of Sydney
Australia
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
University of Missouri, Columbia
United States of America
Kyoto University
Japan
Beijing Forestry University
China (Mainland)
The University of Arizona
United States of America
Lincoln University
New Zealand
University of California, Riverside
United States of America
Yale University
United States of America
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Spain
Harper Adams University
United Kingdom
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
United States of America
Universidade de Vigo
Spain
University of Toronto
Canada
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
Germany
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
Hokkaido University
Japan
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
King Saud University
Saudi Arabia
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
MATE Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Hungary
Jiangnan University
China (Mainland)
University of Maryland, College Park
United States of America
UNESP
Brazil
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COUNTRY/TERRITORY
