The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 11^th for life and ag sciences among world universities in Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University’s annual survey. The same survey placed UW-Madison 19th overall.

Rankings are based upon alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, research performance, highly cited researchers and papers published in Nature and Science, articles indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index and per capita performance based on the size of an institution.