Lincoln University is one of the oldest universities in New Zealand, a member of the Commonwealth University Association, and a world-renowned agricultural university, rated as a five-star university in the world by QS. 2017-2018 World University Comprehensive 319, Agriculture and Forestry ranked 39th, 2016-2017 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Comprehensive 401-500 range. Lincoln University was the first university in the southern hemisphere to offer university agricultural courses, the first university to offer a major in landscape architecture, and the first research institution to study viticulture and winemaking in cool climates. Lincoln University has the highest student-teacher ratio in New Zealand and is the only university with a land-based core. New Zealand has always been a country founded on agriculture, and is proud of the world with many advanced agricultural and biochemical technologies. So while the rest of the world is suffering from many agricultural diseases, such as mad cow disease or toxins in grass, New Zealand does not have such problems. This is all because New Zealand has a very good agricultural university behind the technical support, so that its agricultural products can achieve the highest benefits in the most scientific and safest way.