2 min

Shanghai Ranking 2022: for the third consecutive year, the Université Paris-Saclay is in the global top 20

On 15 August 2022, Shanghai Jiao Tong University published its Academic Ranking of World Universities. Ranked 16th globally and 1st in continental Europe, the Université Paris-Saclay confirms its position as a world-class research university.

Published on 30 August 2022

© INRAE, Anaïs Bozino

For the third year running, the Université Paris-Saclay is ranked as the world's leading university in mathematics. It is listed among the top 50 of the world's best universities in 10 disciplines and the top 100 in 17 additional disciplines. In particular, it is ranked:

  • 9th in Physics,
  • 11th in Agriculture,
  • 20th in Clinical Medicine,
  • 25th in Telecommunications Engineering and Statistics,
  • 30th in Biotechnology,
  • 34th in Automation and Control,
  • 48th in Earth Sciences,
  • 49th in Mechanical Engineering.

INRAE is a major player in life sciences within the Université Paris-Saclay. About 20% of INRAE's total workforce is located in the Île-de-France region, with nearly 1,400 permanent staff spread over the INRAE Versailles-Saclay and Jouy-en-Josas-Antony centres. More than 90% of its researchers in the Ile-de-France region are academically attached to the Université Paris-Saclay. Often working in association with AgroParisTech's teacher-researchers or with other organisations, their scientific output contributes significantly to the Université Paris-Saclay's ranking in Agricultural Sciences. The recent opening of the Agro Paris-Saclay campus under the aegis of INRAE and AgroParisTech confirms the commitment of these two establishments to training, research and innovation within the Université Paris-Saclay.

 

For further information:
https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022

INRAE Île-de-France Communication Departments

translated by Alessandra Riva

Centres

Learn more

Society and regional strategies

Inauguration of the Agro Paris-Saclay campus

PRESS RELEASE - The new Agro Paris-Saclay campus was inaugurated on Wednesday, 13 April in the presence of Laurent Buisson, Director General of AgroParisTech, and Fabrice Marty, deputy Director General representing Philippe Mauguin, Chair and CEO of INRAE. The campus was built within the framework of a comprehensive design-build-operate-maintain contract between VINCI Construction France, builder and representative of the consortium formed for this purpose, and Campus Agros SAS (CASAS), the contracting authority. Designed by architects Marc Mimram and Jean-Baptiste Lacoudre (Patriarche architectural firm) in association with the TER landscaping agency, it comprises a complex of eight buildings with a surface area of 66,000 m2 around a park of almost two hectares planted with trees. The new site offers the two partners a spot in the heart of the Paris-Saclay university ecosystem. A symbol of the key role AgroParisTech and INRAE play in shaping major university sites in France, the Agro Paris-Saclay campus shines a spotlight on this university cluster of excellence on the international stage. Designed to foster research, training and innovation at the highest level in life sciences and environmental industries, these facilities offer world-class scientific work tools within an international teaching centre. They will be progressively implemented in the coming months, in anticipation of the start of the academic year in September 2022.

13 April 2022

Climate change and risks

Peatlands drained for agriculture: estimating carbon emissions over the last millennium

PRESS RELEASE - An INRAE & CEA-led international team that included the CNRS, University of Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, and University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines* has developed a model that makes it possible to estimate, for the very first time, historical carbon emissions due to the conversion of natural peatlands into farmland from 850 to 2010 A.D. Their results, which were published in the 4 June issue of Science Advances, reveal that over that time period, some 72 billion tonnes of carbon were emitted in the Northern Hemisphere through conversion of peatland into land for agricultural purposes. They also showed that only half of those emissions were compensated for by ongoing carbon uptake in the remaining natural peatlands in the Northern Hemisphere.

15 June 2021