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Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University

China (Mainland)Asia

#801

QS World University Rankings 2026

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QS 2026 overall score

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Ranking data

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#801

QS World University Rankings 2026

#851

QS World University Rankings 2025

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QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
5.2
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
2.9
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
35
QS 2026 rank
#565

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
61.5
QS 2026 rank
#278

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
2
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
1.7
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
70.6
QS 2026 rank
#516

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
5.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
39
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University

Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University joins farming, ecology, food, and engineering

Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University is based in Yangling, Shaanxi, an agricultural science area in northwest China. Its public materials describe study areas in agriculture, forestry, engineering, economics, management, humanities, food science, plant pathology, soil science, and environmental science. The university's location gives research a direct connection to crops, water, land, forests, livestock, food production, and rural development, while its technical schools support modelling and laboratory work.

Agriculture needs fields, crops, soils, pests, animals, weather, or farm records. Forestry needs trees, landscapes, biodiversity, remote sensing, or management plans. Food science needs ingredients, microbes, processing, safety, and sensory measures. Engineering needs irrigation, machinery, energy, structures, or data systems. Economics and management need farms, cooperatives, markets, policies, and rural organisations. Choose the academic unit that owns the main observation.

Northwest A&F research addresses dryland farming, food systems, forests, and rural change

Yangling and the wider northwest provide settings for research on water use, dryland agriculture, soil health, crop improvement, plant disease, forest restoration, livestock, food processing, and rural livelihoods. A project may combine field observations with plant, soil, or food laboratories. It may also use satellite imagery, farm records, economic data, or a controlled engineering experiment. The research question should state which evidence is essential and which facility will interpret it.

The university's breadth allows work to move from a biological process to a farm or market outcome. A plant study may measure disease or yield. An engineering project may test irrigation or machinery. A food project may compare a process or safety measure. A rural development study may examine households, firms, public programmes, or supply chains. Keep the scale clear before claiming that a result applies across northwest China.

How to assess a Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University research route

Trace the agricultural object across the college, research institute, field station, laboratory, and researcher. Crop science needs plants, soils, genes, pests, or yield records. Forestry needs plots, species, landscape maps, or management decisions. Food science needs ingredients, microbes, processing lines, or consumer observations. Engineering needs pumps, machines, sensors, materials, or performance values. Economics and management need farms, firms, prices, households, or policy documents.

At Northwest A&F, frame the route as crop, forest, laboratory, computational, engineering, field, food-system, rural-economy, or policy research. Identify the farm, forest, greenhouse, laboratory, processing site, company, village, archive, dataset, or water system that supplies the evidence. Yangling may be the field setting, the institutional base, or a comparison site. Explain its role, identify the first sample, map, interview, model, process measure, or observation, and keep the work tied to one unit.

A practical Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University research question

A workable question links a crop, forest, food, water, or rural system to a defined result. It might measure soil moisture, model irrigation, test a food process, map forest change, study plant disease, analyse a farm market, or evaluate a rural service. Choose the faculty, facility, evidence source, and initial test. Fix the field plot, season, crop, process stage, household group, or data period before adding a wider regional comparison. State who will use the result and how the measurement will be repeated. Add the baseline soil, crop, or water condition and the practical decision the finding should inform.

Institution record

Country
China (Mainland)
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
XL
Profile record updated
October 31, 2025

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