Welcome to our University Rankings Guide
In this section you can find the rankings of the worlds 500 best universities and institutions. A unique feature is that the often hard to find postal address is also included in the listing. The top university lists are available from the left hand navigation bar.
Once you have identified an institution from the university rankings that you are interested in, you can find more information on the university by clicking on its name. This will lead you to interesting information on the institute and to a list of all the faculty members that work in the plant biology and botany related fields within the university. By clicking on the name of the group leader you can find further information on their field of study.
Top 500 University Rankings Guide
Presently the university rankings of the worlds top 500 establishments and their addresses are available. These university rankings listings are based on things such as nobel prizes and achievements made by the faculty, they can be a little misleading, for example a nobel prize winner may have been educated at one university but carried out there research at another university. Another problem with the rankings is that they fail to take into account the small elite universities. For example Brown is a well funded Ivy League university where everybody should be proud to study, yet it is not ranked within the top hundred in the university ranks. Other Universities to suffer include the University of York and the University of Warwick, both in England. These two universities are very strong on teaching and research (especially in plant science), and fight for the 5th and 6th position in most of the British university rankings, yet due to not having a multitude of nobel prize winners, or a billion dollar endowment they are not very high in the world university rankings list.
The listing of University rankings are split into 5 categories.
The first university rankings is of the top 500 universities in the world; these can be accessed from the left navigation panel. The second is a list of the top british universities. The third gives an overview of the highest ranked colleges in the USA and their addresses. Fourthly a list of European universities is available. Finally a list of the top institutes for plant biologists will be given based upon the number of biology faculty who work there.