World best life sciences universities by nation in 2009

Column chart showing the 100 top world-class universities in life and agriculture sciences in 2009. The United States have 58 universities. United Kingdom 10. Germany 6. Canada 5. Australia and Switzerland 4 each. Belgium and Japan 3 each. Netherlands and Sweden 2 each. Denmark, Finland and France 1 each.

The US have 58% of the top-ranked universities in the field of life and agriculture sciences. 30% are European, and the rest is shared by Canada (5%), Australia (4%), and Japan (3%).

Top 100 World-class Universities Life and Agriculture Sciences
Ranking in the Field ¹		Institution	Country
2009	2008	Institution	Country
1	1	Harvard University	USA
2	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
3	3	University of California, San Francisco	USA
4	4	University of Washington	USA
5	5	Stanford University	USA
6	6	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA
7	7	University of Cambridge	UK
7	11	University of Oxford	UK
9	7	Columbia University	USA
10	9	Rockefeller University	USA
10	12	Yale University	USA
12	10	University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA
13	13	The Johns Hopkins University	USA
14	19	University of California, San Diego	USA
15	15	Cornell University	USA
15	18	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
17	17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
18	19	University College London	UK
18	16	University of Pennsylvania	USA
20	20	University of California, Berkeley	USA
21	21	University of California, Davis	USA
22	22	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
23	23	California Institute of Technology	USA
24	24	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
25	25	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	USA
26	26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
27	27	Vanderbilt University	USA
28	28	Kyoto University	Japan
29	29	University of Zurich	Switzerland
30	30	The University of Tokyo	Japan
31	31	McGill University	Canada
32	32	University of Florida	USA
33	34	Duke University	USA
34	33	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
35	41	The University of Edinburgh	UK
36	39	University of British Columbia	Canada
36	35	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	USA
38	42	University of Wageningen	Netherlands
39	37	University of Basel	Switzerland
40	38	New York University	USA
40	43	University of Pittsburgh	USA
42	40	The Australian National University	Australia
43	36	University of Utah	USA
44	47	The University of Western Australia	Australia
45	45	Princeton University	USA
46	44	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UK
47	51-75	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
47	76-107	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
49	45	Case Western Reserve University	USA
50	49	Lund University	Sweden
50	48	University of Toronto	Canada
52-75	51-75	Baylor College of Medicine	USA
52-75	51-75	Emory University	USA
52-75	51-75	King's College London	UK
52-75	51-75	Michigan State University	USA
52-75	51-75	Northwestern University	USA
52-75	51-75	Osaka University	Japan
52-75	51-75	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	USA
52-75	51-75	Technical University Munich	Germany
52-75	51-75	The Ohio State University - Columbus	USA
52-75	51-75	The University of Georgia	USA
52-75	76-107	The University of Queensland	Australia
52-75	76-107	The University of Sheffield	UK
52-75	51-75	Tufts University	Queensland
52-75	51-75	University of Birmingham	UK
52-75	51-75	University of California, Irvine	USA
52-75	51-75	University of Chicago	USA
52-75	76-107	University of Freiburg	Germany
52-75		University of Iowa	USA
52-75	51-75	University of Munich	Germany
52-75	50	University of Nottingham	UK
52-75	51-75	University of Rochester	USA
52-75	51-75	University of Southern California	USA
52-75	51-75	University of Virginia	USA
52-75	51-75	Utrecht University	Netherlands
76-100	76-107	Brown University	USA
76-100	76-107	Cardiff University	UK
76-100	76-107	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium
76-100	76-107	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
76-100	51-75	Colorado State University	USA
76-100	76-107	Ghent University	Belgium
76-100	76-107	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	USA
76-100	76-107	Oregon Health and Science University	USA
76-100	76-107	Oregon State University	USA
76-100	76-107	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
76-100	76-107	Purdue University - West Lafayette	USA
76-100	76-107	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	USA
76-100	76-107	Texas A&M University - College Station	USA
76-100	76-107	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA
76-100	76-107	University of Alberta	Canada
76-100	76-107	University of Arizona	USA
76-100	51-75	University of California, Riverside	USA
76-100	76-107	University of Geneva	Switzerland
76-100	76-107	University of Goettingen	Germany
76-100	76-107	University of Helsinki	Finland
76-100	76-107	University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey	USA
76-100	76-107	University of Melbourne	Australia
76-100	76-107	University of Montreal	Canada
76-100	76-107	University of Tuebingen	Germany
76-100	76-107	University of Wuerzburg	Germany
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.

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