QS World University Rankings by Faculty Area
Biological Sciences
Institutions Considered 1,533
Weightings
Academic 40%
Employer 30%
Citations 10%
H 10%
IRN 10%
Top 650 Universities - Biological Sciences
2023 2022 Institution Location Academic Employer Citations H International Score
1 1 Harvard University United States 100 100 94.2 100 100 98.8
2 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 95 96.6 100 97 74.2 94.5
3 4 Stanford University United States 95.1 95.5 95.2 94.3 78.6 93.4
4 5 University of Oxford United Kingdom 97.7 97 87.1 88 94.9 93.3
5 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 98 96.3 91.3 90.5 78.3 93
6 6 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland 96.5 92.2 87.8 83.7 57.8 87.9
7 7 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 91.7 89.6 91.7 86.8 60.8 87.4
8 11= UCL United Kingdom 85.2 83.8 87.6 88.5 92.5 86.9
9= 8 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 88.2 79.8 90.9 91.2 67.8 86.5
9= 10 Yale University United States 88.2 88.9 89.2 87.9 68.8 86.5
11 11= Imperial College London United Kingdom 86.7 86.4 85.7 85 89 86.4
12 9 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 87.2 86.8 89.3 88.6 70.2 86.2
13 17 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) United States 80.8 73.2 94.9 93 82.5 85.5
14 15 Cornell University United States 83.8 81.6 90.7 90.3 74.2 85.3
15 19 Johns Hopkins University United States 79.7 89.1 87.7 89.2 86.5 84.8
16 14 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 85.3 91.1 87.1 85.2 65.3 84.2
17 13 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 90.2 85.9 95 78.8 42.4 83.7
18= 20= Columbia University United States 81.1 83 90 87.6 70.4 83.3
18= 25 University of Copenhagen Denmark 81.3 74.9 86.9 87.2 84.3 83.3
20 22 The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 83.1 79.1 86.5 84 76.1 82.9
21 24 University of Pennsylvania United States 77.5 85.4 90.1 89.8 71.2 82.6
22 28 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 84.7 70.3 87.3 82.9 73 82.3
23 36= Karolinska Institute Sweden 76.9 80.4 86.7 87.6 83.2 82
24= 29= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 81.8 76 87.7 84.4 71.8 81.9
24= 26= University of Chicago United States 80.1 81.5 92.1 86.5 59.4 81.9
26 16 University of Toronto Canada 77.1 88.7 86.6 88.4 69.6 81.7
27 18 The University of Tokyo Japan 88.3 84.6 79.9 82.5 53.4 81.6
28 20= Princeton University United States 84.8 86 93.6 80.2 42.5 81.5
29 38 University of Washington United States 74.9 75 88.4 88.1 84.8 81.2
30 23 EPFL Switzerland 84.8 84.3 88.9 79.7 48.8 81
31 33= Sorbonne University France 75.7 82.6 84.3 84.3 81.4 80.4
32= 29= Peking University China (Mainland) 83.2 80.4 84.7 85.1 48 80.1
32= 26= Tsinghua University China (Mainland) 86.3 78 87.2 84.4 34.6 80.1
34 31= University of British Columbia Canada 79.5 84.4 84.8 84.1 59.1 79.9
35 42 University of California, Davis United States 79.8 78.4 82.5 81.6 71.8 79.8
36 39 McGill University Canada 76.9 83.3 84.6 82.4 68.6 79.4
37 46 King's College London United Kingdom 73 80.6 86.4 85.1 77.3 79.3
38= 41 The University of Melbourne Australia 74.3 80.3 84.5 85 75.1 79.2
38= 47= Wageningen University & Research Netherlands 83.6 79.2 82.8 74.9 62.8 79.2
40= 44= Duke University United States 74.4 76.7 87.3 84.4 72.8 79.1
40= 40 Seoul National University South Korea 85.2 84 78.6 79.1 50.3 79.1
42 36= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States 73.7 76.8 87.4 87.9 68.2 79
43 35 New York University (NYU) United States 74.6 74.5 92.6 86.6 57 78.8
44 31= Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Singapore 80.6 81.9 86.2 79.1 51.9 78.7
45 47= The University of Manchester United Kingdom 73.5 77.3 87.7 83.5 70.4 78.4
46 33= Kyoto University Japan 82.6 74 82.4 79 50 77.7
47= 53= Utrecht University Netherlands 71.7 72.3 87.8 84.7 70.2 77.4
47= 50 Washington University in St. Louis United States 70.9 65.9 91.7 88.5 63.6 77.4
49 52 Uppsala University Sweden 77.1 71.8 82.7 78.5 70.8 77.3
50= 43 Technical University of Munich Germany 77.4 71.6 84.4 81.7 58.6 77.2
50= 49 University of Zurich Switzerland 72.3 67.7 89.2 84.4 67.4 77.2
52 58 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 68.2 71.6 89.7 87 72.4 77
53 44= Rockefeller University United States 75.4 55.3 97.6 83.7 49 76.9
54= 60 KU Leuven Belgium 70.8 73 85.3 82.6 75.5 76.8
54= 57 University of Glasgow United Kingdom 72.5 72.1 86.8 81.2 70 76.8
56 56 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 74.7 76.3 83.9 81.5 58.9 76.5
57 53= The University of Queensland Australia 73.5 76.4 83.4 82.9 60.7 76.4
58= 67= Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 72.9 63.1 85.4 79.6 77 76.2
58= 55 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 72.4 74.8 83.4 81.2 68.2 76.2
60 62= Universitat de Barcelona Spain 73.3 72.2 81.9 77.1 75.7 75.9
61 93= Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 74.5 78.5 74.2 78.4 75.8 75.8
62 80 University of Geneva Switzerland 66.6 66.3 95 83.5 66.9 75.7
63 51 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology South Korea 82.5 79.9 84.5 72.1 30.2 75.3
64 75= Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 82.1 88.4 70.6 70.7 52.1 75.2
65= 67= Leiden University Netherlands 71.5 66.6 84.9 81.8 64.9 75.1
65= 64= Northwestern University United States 67.8 74 87.4 83.7 63.3 75.1
67= 59 The Australian National University Australia 74 76.1 86.2 74.8 55.1 74.9
67= 73= University of Basel Switzerland 67.5 64.7 86.6 81 79.3 74.9
69= 104= Université de Montpellier France 71.8 51.5 80.1 77.6 92.7 74.7
69= 75= University of Helsinki Finland 73.4 61.6 83.6 80.1 64.3 74.7
71= 71= The University of Sydney Australia 69.3 78.2 82.5 80.2 64.3 74.5
71= 66 Université PSL France 65.1 70.2 86.3 83.5 75 74.5
73= 73= Fudan University China (Mainland) 73.4 75.2 81 83.3 46.4 74.4
73= 95= Yonsei University South Korea 76.6 78.6 78.8 75 51.1 74.4
75 98= Ghent University Belgium 69.8 60.4 83.4 81.3 74.2 74.3
76 62= The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 70.9 74.7 87.8 77.5 52.6 74.2
77 83 Lund University Sweden 72.6 62.8 81.2 78 68.6 74
78= 69= Monash University Australia 68.1 74.5 83.3 81.6 62.3 73.9
78= 64= University of Bristol United Kingdom 71 70.3 84.8 78.7 58 73.9
80= 85= Baylor College of Medicine United States 66.2 53.1 90.4 85.6 68.3 73.8
80= 118= Freie Universitaet Berlin Germany 71.6 65.8 86.5 74.4 64 73.8
80= 75= Shanghai Jiao Tong University China (Mainland) 74.5 72.9 79.2 83.3 42.4 73.8
83= 103 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 76.2 86.5 72.8 71.7 57.1 73.7
83= 81= Zhejiang University China (Mainland) 73.7 74.6 80.4 83.3 40.1 73.7
85 87= Université Paris-Saclay France 66.5 68.4 82.4 81 75 73.6
86 75= University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 70.5 75.9 82.5 77.8 56.3 73.5
87= 97 Pennsylvania State University United States 68.7 76.4 82.5 78.6 60.8 73.4
87= 144= University of Florida United States 68.4 61.3 79.9 80 79.6 73.4
87= 84 University of Groningen Netherlands 69.6 64.5 83.6 80.6 62.2 73.4
90= 90= The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Australia 66.7 72.2 83.7 81 64.2 73.3
90= 89 University of Texas at Austin United States 70.4 75.9 85.7 77.7 48.9 73.3
90= 87= University of Vienna Austria 72.4 67.2 86 73.9 56.3 73.3
93 71= Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Ireland 70.2 75.2 87.4 74.7 51.7 73.2
94= 61 Osaka University Japan 75.1 68.7 79.2 79.1 44.3 73
94= 127= Technical University of Denmark Denmark 67 70.7 86.2 77.3 64.2 73
96 75= University of Göttingen Germany 68.7 65.6 87.1 77.4 59.9 72.9
97= 95= Boston University United States 64 77.2 87.2 80.7 59.2 72.8
97= 85= University of Lausanne Switzerland 69.4 52.6 87.4 80.2 62.7 72.8
99 81= The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) United States 70.4 49.8 93.4 82.6 41.9 72.5
100= 98= Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Germany 68.5 59.5 85.8 80.6 57.1 72.3
100= 118= Texas A&M University United States 69.4 68.6 80.7 77 61.3 72.3