The Characteristics of First Class Agricultural-Related Universities in the World University Rankings——Based on Research of US News, QS and ARWU University Rankings

[Purpose/Significance] To understand the characteristics of the first class agricultural-related universities. [Method/Process] The changes of the overall ranking and agricultural discipline ranking of top 10 and top 50 agricultural-related universities from 2017 to 2019 in US News, QS and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) University Rankings were analyzed, respectively. [Results/Conclusions] (1) most top 10 agricultural-related universities are lower-ranked, with 2/3 ranked outside of top 100, (2) top 10 agricultural-related universities' rankings are not stable, and only four universities, Cornell University, Wageningen University & Research, California University Davis and China Agricultural University are listed as top 10 agricultural universities in all three rankings, (3) top 10 agricultural-related universities come from more countries than top 10 universities do, and Chinese universities have better performance in agriculture than in other fields, and (4) numbers and position of selected f