The Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was recently ranked number one in the field of food science and technology in the U.S. by the 2023 Shanghai Ranking. This ranking is based on the total contribution from the entire faculty of the food science program. The size of the faculty in the food science programs above us is about five to twenty-five times bigger than ours. We are extremely proud that our department was ranked first among the U.S.