Shanghai Ranking 2016: top universities for life and agriculture sciences

Academic Ranking of World Universities reveals its top universities for life and agriculture sciences according to the 2016 subject ranking league tables, known as the ARWU-FIELD rankings

September 7 2016

By Carly Minsky

Two hundred of the best universities for life sciences and agriculture sciences feature in a specific 2016 subject ranking by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

For the tenth year, Harvard University ranks first in the world for life sciences.

The University of Cambridge in second place achieves its highest position across the five field rankings, and in fact the highest position for any UK university in the five rankings.

UK universities do particularly well in this ranking, taking three spots in the top 10 and more than 10 per cent of the full ranking.

More ShanghaiRanking results:

-Shanghai subject ranking 2016 overview
-Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016: main results
-Full results for natural sciences and mathematics
-Full results for engineering, technology and computer sciences
-Full results for clinical medicine and pharmacy
-Full results for social sciences

For prospective students of the life sciences or agricultural sciences, there’s almost an even split between top universities in Europe and in North America to choose from.

Many universities in Europe offer degrees taught in English at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

There are also highly ranked universities in Australia – three within the top 25 and a further nine in total.

Kyoto University in Japan is the only Asian institution in the top 25. This contrasts with the engineering ranking, in which half the top 10 are Asian universities.

In total, 28 countries are represented in the life sciences ranking this year, including South Korea, Israel, South Africa and Mexico, with just one university each.

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy produces the ranking using performance indicators measuring alumni award-winners, research publications and citations, among other factors. The ARWU-FIELD rankings have been published since 2007.

Top universities for life sciences and agricultural sciences: ARWU-FIELD 2016

World Rank	Institution	Country	Region
1	Harvard University	USA	Americas
2	University of Cambridge	UK	Europe
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	Americas
4	Stanford University	USA	Americas
5	University of California, San Francisco	USA	Americas
6	University of Washington	USA	Americas
7	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Americas
8	Yale University	USA	Americas
9	University College London	UK	Europe
10	University of Oxford	UK	Europe
11	Rockefeller University	USA	Americas
12	Johns Hopkins University	USA	Americas
13	Columbia University	USA	Americas
13	University of California, San Diego	USA	Americas
15	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Americas
16	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA	Americas
17	Cornell University	USA	Americas
18	University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Americas
19	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA	Americas
20	The University of Queensland	Australia	Asia/Pacific
21	Kyoto University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
22	University of Pennsylvania	USA	Americas
23	Washington University in St Louis	USA	Americas
24	University of Western Australia	Australia	Asia/Pacific
25	University of Melbourne	Australia	Asia/Pacific
25	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Europe
27	University of Tokyo	Japan	Asia/Pacific
28	University of Michigan	USA	Americas
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	Americas
30	McGill University	Canada	Americas
31	Duke University	USA	Americas
32	University of Minnesota	USA	Americas
33	Imperial College London	UK	Europe
34	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	Europe
35	University of California, Davis	USA	Americas
36	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	Europe
37	Ghent University	Belgium	Europe
38	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Europe
38	University of Toronto	Canada	Americas
40	California Institute of Technology	USA	Americas
41	University of British Columbia	Canada	Americas
42	University of California, Santa Cruz	USA	Americas
43	University of Edinburgh	UK	Europe
44	University of Pittsburgh	USA	Americas
45	King's College London	UK	Europe
46	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	USA	Americas
47	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	USA	Americas
48	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	Europe
49	University of Chicago	USA	Americas
49	University of Göttingen	Germany	Europe
51-75	Baylor College of Medicine	USA	Americas
51-75	Cardiff University	UK	Europe
51-75	Emory University	USA	Americas
51-75	Heidelberg University	Germany	Europe
51-75	KU Leuven	Belgium	Europe
51-75	Mayo Medical School	USA	Americas
51-75	Michigan State University	USA	Americas
51-75	New York University	USA	Americas
51-75	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	Europe
51-75	Osaka University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Pennsylvania State University	USA	Americas
51-75	Princeton University	USA	Americas
51-75	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Europe
51-75	Australian National University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
51-75	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Basel	Switzerland	Europe
51-75	University of Florida	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Freiburg	Germany	Europe
51-75	University of Helsinki	Finland	Europe
51-75	University of Maryland, College Park	USA	Americas
51-75	LMU Munich	Germany	Europe
51-75	University of Nottingham	UK	Europe
51-75	University of Oslo	Norway	Europe
51-75	University of Southern California	USA	Americas
51-75	Vanderbilt University	USA	Americas
76-100	Aarhus University	Denmark	Europe
76-100	Aix-Marseille University	France	Europe
76-100	Lund University	Sweden	Europe
76-100	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Oregon State University	USA	Americas
76-100	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	Europe
76-100	Queen Mary University of London	UK	Europe
76-100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	USA	Americas
76-100	Seoul National University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Ohio State University	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Adelaide	Australia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	University of Arizona	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Birmingham	UK	Europe
76-100	University of California, Irvine	USA	Americas
76-100	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Colorado Boulder	USA	Americas
76-100	University of East Anglia	UK	Europe
76-100	University of Exeter	UK	Europe
76-100	University of Geneva	Switzerland	Europe
76-100	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	Europe
76-100	University of Southampton	UK	Europe
76-100	University of Strasbourg	France	Europe
76-100	University of Tübingen	Germany	Europe
76-100	University of Utah	USA	Americas
76-100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain	Europe
101-150	Boston University	USA	Americas
101-150	Brown University	USA	Americas
101-150	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	Europe
101-150	China Agricultural University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Indiana University	USA	Americas
101-150	James Cook University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Macquarie University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	North Carolina State University	USA	Americas
101-150	Northwestern University	USA	Americas
101-150	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France	Europe
101-150	Purdue University	USA	Americas
101-150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Stockholm University	Sweden	Europe
101-150	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden	Europe
101-150	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	Europe
101-150	The University of Dundee	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Georgia	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Glasgow	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Manchester	UK	Europe
101-150	University of New South Wales	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Sheffield	UK	Europe
101-150	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	USA	Americas
101-150	Tsinghua University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	TU Dresden	Germany	Europe
101-150	Tufts University	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	University of Bonn	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Bristol	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Groningen	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	University of Guelph	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Iowa	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	Europe
101-150	University of Leeds	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Liverpool	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Massachusetts	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Missouri	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Montreal	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	USA	Americas
101-150	Paris Descartes University	France	Europe
101-150	Paris-Sud University	France	Europe
101-150	University of Rochester	USA	Americas
101-150	University of São Paulo	Brazil	Americas
101-150	University of Virginia	USA	Americas
101-150	Utrecht University	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Zhejiang University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Arizona State University	USA	Americas
151-200	Case Western Reserve University	USA	Americas
151-200	Hannover Medical School	Germany	Europe
151-200	Indiana University-Purdue University	USA	Americas
151-200	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	La Trobe University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Laval University	Canada	Americas
151-200	Leiden University	Netherlands	Europe
151-200	Medical University of Vienna	Austria	Europe
151-200	Monash University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Nagoya University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
151-200	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	Americas
151-200	Oregon Health and Science University	USA	Americas
151-200	Peking University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	Europe
151-200	Stony Brook University	USA	Americas
151-200	Texas A&M University	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Auckland	New Zealand	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Calgary	Canada	Americas
151-200	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	USA	Americas
151-200	Tohoku University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	Europe
151-200	Umeå University	Sweden	Europe
151-200	University College Dublin	Ireland	Europe
151-200	University of Aberdeen	UK	Europe
151-200	University of Antwerp	Belgium	Europe
151-200	University of Barcelona	Spain	Europe
151-200	University of California, Riverside	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Cape Town	South Africa	Africas
151-200	University of Delaware	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	Europe
151-200	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Hohenheim	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Kansas	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Kiel	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Miami	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Milan	Italy	Europe
151-200	Montpellier University	France	Europe
151-200	University of Münster	Germany	Europe
151-200	Université du Québec à Montréal	Canada	Americas
151-200	University of Sydney	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Tasmania	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Ulm University	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Valencia	Spain	Europe
151-200	University of Vienna	Austria	Europe
151-200	University of Wuerzburg	Germany	Europe
151-200	Uppsala University	Sweden	Europe
151-200	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium	Europe
151-200	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Yeshiva University	USA	Americas