World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Biological Sciences

2026 edition, Biological Sciences. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for Biological Sciences
2 Stanford University 2nd in the world for Biological Sciences
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3rd in the world for Biological Sciences
4 University of California, San Francisco 4th in the world for Biological Sciences
5 Johns Hopkins University 5th in the world for Biological Sciences
6 Yale University 6th in the world for Biological Sciences
7 University of Oxford 7th in the world for Biological Sciences
8 University of Cambridge 8th in the world for Biological Sciences
9 University of California, Berkeley 9th in the world for Biological Sciences
10 University of Washington 10th in the world for Biological Sciences
11 University College London 11th in the world for Biological Sciences
12 Rockefeller University 12th in the world for Biological Sciences
13 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School 13th in the world for Biological Sciences
14 Cornell University 14th in the world for Biological Sciences
15 University of California, San Diego 15th in the world for Biological Sciences
16 Columbia University 16th in the world for Biological Sciences
17 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 17th in the world for Biological Sciences
18 University of Pennsylvania 18th in the world for Biological Sciences
19 Zhejiang University 19th in the world for Biological Sciences
20 Kyoto University 20th in the world for Biological Sciences
21 University of Copenhagen 21st in the world for Biological Sciences
22 University of Alberta 22nd in the world for Biological Sciences
23 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 23rd in the world for Biological Sciences
24 Washington University in St. Louis 24th in the world for Biological Sciences
25 University of California, Los Angeles 25th in the world for Biological Sciences
26 Princeton University 26th in the world for Biological Sciences
27 University of Toronto 27th in the world for Biological Sciences
28 Université Paris Cité 28th in the world for Biological Sciences
29 Imperial College London 29th in the world for Biological Sciences
30 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 30th in the world for Biological Sciences
31 University of California, Davis 31st in the world for Biological Sciences
32 Peking University 32nd in the world for Biological Sciences
33 University of Tokyo 33rd in the world for Biological Sciences
=34 China Agricultural University 34th in the world for Biological Sciences
=34 University of Pittsburgh 34th in the world for Biological Sciences
36 Tsinghua University 36th in the world for Biological Sciences
37 Institute of Science Tokyo 37th in the world for Biological Sciences
38 University of Western Australia 38th in the world for Biological Sciences
39 New York University 39th in the world for Biological Sciences
40 University of Queensland 40th in the world for Biological Sciences
41 Heidelberg University 41st in the world for Biological Sciences
42 Karolinska Institute 42nd in the world for Biological Sciences
=43 University of British Columbia 43rd in the world for Biological Sciences
=43 Fudan University 43rd in the world for Biological Sciences
45 Duke University 45th in the world for Biological Sciences
46 University of Florida 46th in the world for Biological Sciences
47 University of Minnesota 47th in the world for Biological Sciences
48 University of Chicago 48th in the world for Biological Sciences
49 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 49th in the world for Biological Sciences
50 KU Leuven 50th in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 ETH Zurich 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 McGill University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 National University of Singapore 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Edinburgh 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Hong Kong 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Sao Paulo 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Wageningen University & Research 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Aarhus University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Nanjing Agricultural University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Groningen 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Utrecht University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Zurich 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Huazhong Agricultural University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Vanderbilt University 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=51 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 51st in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 California Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 King's College London 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Sichuan University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Monash University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Northwestern University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Sorbonne University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 University of New South Wales 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 University of Vienna 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Sun Yat-sen University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 University of Melbourne 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Osaka University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 University of Glasgow 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Seoul National University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Technical University of Munich 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 University of Southern California 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=76 Ghent University 76th in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Amsterdam 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Colorado Boulder 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Texas at Austin 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Wuhan University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Exeter 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 South China Agricultural University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Texas A&M University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Purdue University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Naples Federico II 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Montpellier 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 PSL University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Birmingham 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Bristol 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Case Western Reserve University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Lund University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Queen Mary University of London 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Georgia 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of California, Irvine 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 Adelaide University 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Göttingen 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=101 University of Missouri 101st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Nanyang Technological University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of Manchester 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Northwest A&F University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Georgia Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Michigan State University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Brown University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Southern University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of Nottingham 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 National Autonomous University of Mexico 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of Montreal 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Westlake University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of Auckland 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of Miami 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Shandong University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 Tel Aviv University 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=151 University of East Anglia 151st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Central South University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Korea University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Ocean University of China 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Tohoku University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Tongji University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Science and Technology of China 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Sheffield 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Western Sydney University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Yonsei University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 James Cook University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Australian National University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 La Trobe University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Nanjing University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Xi'an Jiaotong University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 KAIST 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 King Saud University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Oregon State University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Chinese University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Colorado State University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Maryland, College Park 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Queensland University of Technology 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Leeds 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Turin 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Virginia Tech 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Guelph 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Sichuan Agricultural University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Shenzhen University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Sapienza University of Rome 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 University of Otago 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 RWTH Aachen University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Hainan University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=201 Lanzhou University 201st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Griffith University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 RMIT University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Technology Sydney 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Yangzhou University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of St Andrews 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Curtin University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Durham University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Northeast Agricultural University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Hawaii at Manoa 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Warwick 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Nankai University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of California, Santa Barbara 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Southampton 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Trinity College Dublin 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Buenos Aires 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Rice University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Macquarie University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 University of Konstanz 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Beijing Forestry University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=301 Murdoch University 301st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 City University of Hong Kong 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Flinders University 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 University of Newcastle 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Delft University of Technology 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 South China University of Technology 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Beijing Normal University 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Nanjing Forestry University 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Southwest University 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 University of Victoria 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Shandong Agricultural University 401st in the world for Biological Sciences
=401 Dartmouth College 401st in the world for Biological Sciences