World 100 top universities 2011 | life and agriculture sciences

XY scatter chart of the academic ranking of world universities in life and agriculture sciences in 2011. The United States place 57 universities in the list of top 100. They are followed far behind by the United Kingdom with 10, Germany with 7, and Australia and Canada with 4 each. In per capita terms, Switzerland is first with an index of 39.5, followed by Belgium 28.5, Netherlands 24.2, Sweden 21.5 and Finland 18.7. The latter group of small countries are placed above the median (18.2) and the average (red line). The United States, notwithstanding their absolute performance, remain just close to the median and the average in per capita terms.

The United States place 57 universities in the top 100 list, 1 more than in 2010. With Canada's 4, North America is dominant in the academic field of life and agriculture sciences. Europe as a whole takes 32 slots. Australia and Japan fill in the remaining 7 slots.

Switzerland with 3 universities — 1 less than in 2010 — in the 100 list gets an index of 39.5, twice the median of 18.2, and neatly commands the per capita ranking. Its is followed by other small European countries and Australia. The USA have a per capita index of 17.9 just below the the median and right on average (red line).

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2011
Country	Number	Population	Per capita
Country	Number	Million	(Nbr/Millionx100)
Australia	4	21.6	18.5
Belgium	3	10.5	28.5
Canada	4	34.0	11.8
Denmark	1	5.5	18.2
Finland	1	5.3	18.7
France	1	62.8	1.6
Germany	7	82.3	8.5
Japan	3	127.6	2.4
Netherlands	4	16.5	24.2
Sweden	2	9.3	21.5
Switzerland	3	7.6	39.5
United Kingdom	10	61.8	16.2
United States	57	317.6	17.9
Median	3		18.2

Academic Ranking of World Universities in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2011
Rank¹	Institution	Country	Total Score
1	Harvard University	United States	100
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	77.2
3	University of California, San Francisco	United States	76.7
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	75.1
5	University of Washington	United States	72.2
6	Stanford University	United States	71
7	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States	67.1
8	Yale University	United States	66.5
9	Cornell University	United States	65.1
10	Columbia University	United States	65
11	Rockefeller University	United States	64.6
11	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States	64.6
13	University of California, San Diego	United States	64.1
14	The Johns Hopkins University	United States	62.5
15	University of California, Berkeley	United States	62.4
16	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	62.3
17	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	60.3
17	University College London	United Kingdom	60.3
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	60
20	University of California, Davis	United States	58
20	University of Pennsylvania	United States	58
22	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	57
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	55.7
24	McGill University	Canada	54.8
25	California Institute of Technology	United States	54.4
25	Vanderbilt University	United States	54.4
27	University of Zurich	Switzerland	53.9
28	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States	53.5
29	Kyoto University	Japan	53.2
30	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	53
31	Duke University	United States	51.9
31	The University of Tokyo	Japan	51.9
33	The University of Western Australia	Australia	51.3
34	University of Basel	Switzerland	50.6
35	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States	50.5
36	University of British Columbia	Canada	50.3
37	University of Wageningen	Netherlands	50.2
38	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom	50
39	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	49.7
40	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	United States	49.5
41	University of Pittsburgh	United States	49.2
42	The Australian National University	Australia	49.1
42	University of Florida	United States	49.1
44	University of Melbourne	Australia	48.4
45	University of Utah	United States	48.2
46	University of Chicago	United States	48.1
47	King's College London	United Kingdom	47.9
48	Princeton University	United States	47.7
49	University of Toronto	Canada	47.6
50	The University of Queensland	Australia	47.5
51-75	Baylor College of Medicine	United States
51-75	Case Western Reserve University	United States
51-75	Emory University	United States
51-75	Lund University	Sweden
51-75	Michigan State University	United States
51-75	New York University	United States
51-75	Northwestern University	United States
51-75	Osaka University	Japan
51-75	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States
51-75	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
51-75	Technical University Munich	Germany
51-75	The University of Georgia	United States
51-75	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
51-75	Tufts University	United States
51-75	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
51-75	University of California, Irvine	United States
51-75	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
51-75	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
51-75	University of Freiburg	Germany
51-75	University of Helsinki	Finland
51-75	University of Iowa	United States
51-75	University of Munich	Germany
51-75	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
51-75	University of Southern California	United States
51-75	University of Virginia	United States
76-100	Brown University	United States
76-100	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
76-100	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium
76-100	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
76-100	Colorado State University	United States
76-100	Ghent University	Belgium
76-100	Leiden University	Netherlands
76-100	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	United States
76-100	Oregon State University	United States
76-100	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
76-100	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States
76-100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States
76-100	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States
76-100	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States
76-100	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	United States
76-100	University of Alberta	Canada
76-100	University of Arizona	United States
76-100	University of California, Riverside	United States
76-100	University of Goettingen	Germany
76-100	University of Heidelberg	Germany
76-100	University of Rochester	United States
76-100	University of Tuebingen	Germany
76-100	University of Wuerzburg	Germany
76-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands
76-100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division

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Academic Ranking of World Universitiesin Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2011

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Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2011

Academic Ranking of World Universities
in Life and Agriculture Sciences - 2011