Column chart showing the 100 top world-class universities in life and agriculture sciences in 2010. The United States have 56 universities. United Kingdom 10. Germany 6. Australia and Canada 5 each. Switzerland 4. Belgium, Japan and the Netherlands 3 each. Sweden 2. Denmark, Finland and France 1 each.

Life and agriculture sciences are trusted by the USA (56) and Europe (31). Far Eastern countries, where top rated schools emerged in several fields, have a modest position in this field, with only 3 universities from Japan represented in the list.

 

100 Top Universities
Life and Agriculture Sciences – 2010

Ranking in the Field ¹

Institution

Country

1Harvard UniversityUnited States
2University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
3Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States
4University of WashingtonUnited States
5Stanford UniversityUnited States
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
7The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasUnited States
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
9Yale UniversityUnited States
10Columbia UniversityUnited States
11Rockefeller UniversityUnited States
11University of Wisconsin - MadisonUnited States
13Cornell UniversityUnited States
14The Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
15University of California, San DiegoUnited States
16University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
17Karolinska InstituteSweden
18University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
19University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
20University College LondonUnited Kingdom
21University of California, DavisUnited States
22University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
23Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
24California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
24University of Michigan - Ann ArborUnited States
26University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
27McGill UniversityCanada
28Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
29Kyoto UniversityJapan
30University of ZurichSwitzerland
31The University of TokyoJapan
32University of FloridaUnited States
33Duke UniversityUnited States
34The University of Western AustraliaAustralia
35University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesUnited States
36University of WageningenNetherlands
37University of BaselSwitzerland
38The University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
39University of British ColumbiaCanada
40University of PittsburghUnited States
41New York UniversityUnited States
41The Australian National UniversityAustralia
41The Imperial College of Science, Technology and MedicineUnited Kingdom
44University of Massachusetts Medical School - WorcesterUnited States
45Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZurichSwitzerland
46University of CopenhagenDenmark
46University of UtahUnited States
48Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States
48University of MelbourneAustralia
50Lund UniversitySweden
51-75Baylor College of MedicineUnited States
51-75Emory UniversityUnited States
51-75King's College LondonUnited Kingdom
51-75Michigan State UniversityUnited States
51-75Northwestern UniversityUnited States
51-75Osaka UniversityJapan
51-75Pennsylvania State University - University ParkUnited States
51-75Princeton UniversityUnited States
51-75Technical University MunichGermany
51-75The Ohio State University - ColumbusUnited States
51-75The University of GeorgiaUnited States
51-75The University of QueenslandAustralia
51-75The University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
51-75University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
51-75University of California, IrvineUnited States
51-75University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
51-75University of ChicagoUnited States
51-75University of FreiburgGermany
51-75University of IowaUnited States
51-75University of MunichGermany
51-75University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
51-75University of RochesterUnited States
51-75University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
51-75University of TorontoCanada
51-75University of VirginiaUnited States
76-100Brown UniversityUnited States
76-100Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom
76-100Catholic University of LeuvenBelgium
76-100Catholic University of LouvainBelgium
76-100Colorado State UniversityUnited States
76-100Ghent UniversityBelgium
76-100Mount Sinai School of MedicineUnited States
76-100Oregon State UniversityUnited States
76-100Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6France
76-100Purdue University - West LafayetteUnited States
76-100Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New BrunswickUnited States
76-100The University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States
76-100Tufts UniversityUnited States
76-100University of AlbertaCanada
76-100University of ArizonaUnited States
76-100University of California, RiversideUnited States
76-100University of GenevaSwitzerland
76-100University of GoettingenGermany
76-100University of HelsinkiFinland
76-100University of MontrealCanada
76-100University of SydneyAustralia
76-100University of TuebingenGermany
76-100University of WuerzburgGermany
76-100Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
76-100VU University AmsterdamNetherlands
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

 

Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.

 

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