CALS is ranked first among land-grant colleges nationally for scientific impact. [ISI Citation Index, 2000-2005]
In the Chronicle of Higher Education’s index of scholarly productivity, UW-Madison ranks first among all universities in three fields that fall within CALS — animal sciences, food science and plant sciences. UW-Madison ranks among the top three in six of the 14 disciplinary areas ranked by this index that lie within CALS. (Scholarly Productivity Index, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007)
10 CALS doctoral programs, rank among the top 15 percent of their peer groups nationally, according to the most recent study by the National Research Council. Programs with average rankings in the top 15 percent include biochemistry, forestry, mass communications, nutritional sciences, and plant breeding and plant genetics. Animal science, dairy science, entomology, food science and microbiology had average rankings that placed them in the top 25 percent of programs nationally.
CALS has top-ranked graduate programs in bacteriology (3rd among all universities, 1st among publics), biochemistry (6th) and genetics (11th), according to the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings. (U.S. News and World Report, America’s Best Graduate Schools 2008)
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