The University of Florida’s Dr. Phil Koehler (left) was inducted into the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame in 2015. He and his colleague Dr. Roberto Pereira (right) specialize in urban entomology.
Photo: PMP, 2015
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked and scored the world’s top 10 universities for entomology, with the University of Florida topping the list.
According to the CWUR, data is obtained from Clarivate Analytics to measure the quality of education and training of students, as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research, based on the number of research articles in top-tier journals. The CWUR ranks the top degree-granting institutions of higher education in 227 subject categories.
The CWUR ranked the following universities for the subject of entomology, as well as scored them by using the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index databases:
| World Rank | Institution | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Florida | 100.00 |
| 2 | University of California, Riverside | 95.23 |
| 3 | Cornell University | 91.95 |
| 4 | Kansas State University | 91.29 |
| 5 | North Carolina State University | 90.88 |
| 6 | Michigan State University | 90.74 |
| 7 | University of California, Davis | 89.88 |
| 8 | University of Georgia | 88.98 |
| 9 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 86.74 |
| 9 | University of São Paulo | 86.74 |
The University of São Paulo in Brazil and Nanjing Agricultural University in China were given a score of 86.74, ranking them both at No. 9.
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