The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) has made it to top 1000 universities of the world on the basis of overall academic performance conducted by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) World University Ranking, Turkey for the year 2018-19.

Out of 2500 Universities of the world, URAP has placed UAF at 986th position globally and rated it at 277th after evaluating 955 universities of Asia. The ranking indicators for URAP are citation, total documents, article impact total, citation impact total, and international collaboration. The main objective of the URAP is to develop a ranking system for the world universities based on academic performance indicators that reflect the quality and the quantity of their scholarly publications. URAP has been annually releasing the World Ranking of Higher Education Institutions since 2010, and Field Ranking since 2011. The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) is participating in National/International World Universities Rankings and Awards since 2011 including Shanghai University Ranking, QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, National Taiwan World University Ranking, UI Green Metic World University Ranking, Information Technology Ranking (ITUR), HEC Ranking, Islamic Development Bank Award (Saudi Arabia) and got prominent positions and even improved its scores years after years Earlier, according to QS World University Ranking, the UAF has emerged as the only University of the country who made its space in top 100 universities of the World in any subject category. In the subject category of Agriculture & Forestry, out of 300 world universities, it secured its place at 85th position in 2018. As per Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017, UAF out of 500 universities has made it to the top 130 universities of the world in agriculture sciences. The Time Higher Education World University Ranking 2019 has declared UAF 805th best among 1250 Universities of the world in Agriculture & Forestry. The UAF, out of 500 Global Universities has been ranked 73rd best Universities of the world in agriculture sciences by National Taiwan University Ranking 2018.