On June 26th, Shanghai Soft Science released the list of world-class disciplines in 2019, covering 54 disciplines in five major fields of science, engineering, life sciences, medicine and social sciences.NWAFU has a total of 13 disciplines on the list, and the number has increased by 3 compared with that of 2018, and 6 with that of 2017.

Among the disciplines on the list, one discipline of NWAFU ranks in the top 10 in the world, three disciplines rank in the top 50 in the world, and five disciplines rank among the top 100 in the world.Among them, agronomy ranked fifth in the world, three places higher than last year; food science and engineering ranked thirteenth in the world, five places higher than last year; water resources engineering ranked twenty-fourth in the world, seventeen places higher than last year; veterinary medicine ranked 51-75th in the world, ranking the same range as last year; bioengineering leaped to 76-100 places from 101-150 last year.