UAF placed in top 150 Universities of the World by QS

University of Agriculture Faisalabad has made it to top 150 universities of the world by QS World University Ranking; the renowned agency involved in ranking best universities of the world on the basis of their performance in academic and employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty student ratio, and proportion of international students and faculty. The QS has been producing authoritative, independent and global rankings since 2004 and continues to lead innovation in the ranking and evaluation of higher education institutions worldwide. All rankings are compiled by the QS Intelligence Unit in consultation with the QS Global Academic Advisory Board. Bibliometric data required in the citation score sections of the methodology is supplied by Scopus, part of Elsevier, the world's largest abstract and citation database of research literature. In 2011, the agency initiated the ranking by subjects in a comprehensive guide to a range of popular subject areas and now in its 3rd year, the rankings series reveals the top 200 universities in the world for 30 individual subjects. In the subject of Agriculture and Forestry, UAF placed ahead of renowned universities of the world like University of Cape Town South Africa, University of Exeter UK, University of Manitoba Canada, University of New England, Bangor University UK, Bogor Agricultural University Indonesia, Curtin University Australia, University of Florence Italy, University of Canberra Australia, University of IOWA US, University of Kansas, and University of the Philippines. More than 100 US universities have made them part of the list and the top three university tag remained with University of California Davis US, Wageningen University Netherland, Cornell University US. Further the list says that no Indian University could get place in the list of 200 top universities. It is worth mentioning that during the evaluation and analysis, The QS team evaluated 2,858 universities and ranked 678 institutions in total after making analysis of 68 million citations by applying 8391 verification programs. In Pakistan, Higher Education Commission (HEC) also evaluated Pakistani Universities on the same lines that made UAF number one University of the country with maximum score among the universities. The ranking is available on http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2013/agriculture-forestry