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List of best medical universities in the world for 2018 - 2019 version of the QS rankings, Shanghai ranking, Times Higher Education compiled for the higher education institutions providing better medical education in the field of clinical, pre-clinical medicine and related disciplines.
Subject area rankings are as follows:
The largest number of top medical universities located in the UK and the USA with the leadership of the universities of Oxford and Harvard. Many medical schools are Netherlands, Australia and Canada also entered the list of top 100 medical universities in the world.
World Rank |
Institution |
Country
|
Score
|
Academic Rep.
|
Citations per Fac.
|
Employer Rep.
|
Faculty Student
|
Int'l Faculty
|
Int'l Students
|
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1 | University of Harvard | 98.9 | 100 | 95.4 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | |
2 | Oxford, University of | 96.4 | 96.4 | 97.2 | 94.2 | 96.3 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | University of Stanford | 94.8 | 93.7 | 95.9 | 91.9 | 96.8 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | University of Cambridge | 94.1 | 96 | 93.9 | 94.2 | 91.4 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | Johns Hopkins University | 93.2 | 92.2 | 94.7 | 78.6 | 99.2 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | Karolinska Institutet | 92.3 | 96 | 92.1 | 73.2 | 94.1 | 0 | 0 | |
7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 92.2 | 89.9 | 95 | 85.7 | 95.6 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | Yale University | 91.4 | 88.8 | 94.1 | 88.8 | 94 | 0 | 0 | |
9 | UCL | 91.3 | 88 | 94.3 | 82.3 | 97.3 | 0 | 0 | |
10 | Imperial College London | 90.8 | 87.1 | 96.9 | 84.4 | 93.1 | 0 | 0 | |
11 | MIT | 90.7 | 87.6 | 100 | 92.9 | 85.4 | 0 | 0 | |
12 | University of California, San Francisco | 90.6 | 89.8 | 95.3 | 69.2 | 95.6 | 0 | 0 | |
13 | Columbia University | 90.2 | 87.1 | 94.7 | 78.9 | 95.1 | 0 | 0 | |
14 | University of Toronto | 89.7 | 85.6 | 92.1 | 80.1 | 97.7 | 0 | 0 | |
15 | University of Pennsylvania | 89.4 | 85 | 95.1 | 74.9 | 96.6 | 0 | 0 | |
16 | Duke University | 89 | 83.5 | 96.5 | 77.8 | 94.6 | 0 | 0 | |
17 | King's College London | 87.6 | 85.2 | 92.8 | 74.5 | 91.6 | 0 | 0 | |
18 | The University of Melbourne | 87.3 | 84.4 | 91.6 | 80.5 | 90.5 | 0 | 0 | |
19 | The University of Sydney | 87 | 81.3 | 92.5 | 79.3 | 93.8 | 0 | 0 | |
20 | University of Washington | 86.6 | 79.4 | 93.8 | 69.7 | 97.5 | 0 | 0 | |
21 | Edinburgh, University of | 86.4 | 81.7 | 95.2 | 73.6 | 90.3 | 0 | 0 | |
22 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 86.3 | 80.3 | 92.5 | 76.4 | 93.8 | 0 | 0 | |
23 | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 86.2 | 83.3 | 95.9 | 65.7 | 89.3 | 0 | 0 | |
24 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 86 | 86.8 | 88 | 85.6 | 82.7 | 0 | 0 | |
25 | McGill University | 85.5 | 82.4 | 90.3 | 77.6 | 88.7 | 0 | 0 | |
26 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 85.2 | 79 | 94.6 | 70.3 | 91.8 | 0 | 0 | |
27 | University of Chicago | 85 | 78.9 | 95.1 | 76.9 | 87.8 | 0 | 0 | |
28 | Seoul National University | 84.5 | 81.6 | 86.9 | 79.7 | 88.8 | 0 | 0 | |
29 | The University of Tokyo | 84.4 | 87.5 | 82.4 | 85.8 | 80.8 | 0 | 0 | |
30 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | 84.2 | 78.6 | 91.4 | 71.3 | 91.2 | 0 | 0 | |
31 | University of British Columbia | 84.1 | 78.9 | 89.8 | 77.9 | 89.3 | 0 | 0 | |
32 | UvA | 84 | 77.8 | 94.1 | 66.5 | 90.9 | 0 | 0 | |
33= | Cornell University | 83.9 | 75.9 | 93.7 | 75.4 | 90.2 | 0 | 0 | |
33= | New York University (NYU) | 83.9 | 76.6 | 92.5 | 75.9 | 90 | 0 | 0 | |
35 | EUR | 83.5 | 76.2 | 94.8 | 62 | 92.3 | 0 | 0 | |
36= | Monash University | 83.3 | 77.3 | 90.3 | 75.7 | 88.8 | 0 | 0 | |
36= | Washington University in St. Louis | 83.3 | 75.6 | 95.2 | 59.4 | 93.2 | 0 | 0 | |
38 | Manchester, University of | 83.2 | 77.3 | 92.8 | 76.8 | 85.7 | 0 | 0 | |
39 | The University of Hong Kong | 82.7 | 83.8 | 85.9 | 74 | 81.2 | 0 | 0 | |
40 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 82.6 | 81.5 | 91.4 | 69.3 | 81 | 0 | 0 | |
41= | McMaster University | 82.2 | 73.7 | 94.7 | 64.2 | 90.6 | 0 | 0 | |
41= | The University of Copenhagen | 82.2 | 72.5 | 91.4 | 67.7 | 94.4 | 0 | 0 | |
43 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 82.1 | 76.3 | 89.7 | 72.2 | 87.9 | 0 | 0 | |
44 | Sorbonne University | 82 | 74 | 92 | 70.9 | 89.2 | 0 | 0 | |
45 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 81.9 | 75.4 | 88.8 | 76.5 | 87.5 | 0 | 0 | |
46 | University of Pittsburgh | 81.7 | 71.4 | 93.4 | 64.9 | 93.3 | 0 | 0 | |
47= | Baylor College of Medicine | 81.5 | 76.8 | 90.2 | 61.9 | 88 | 0 | 0 | |
47= | University of Glasgow | 81.5 | 72.7 | 95.1 | 67.5 | 87.5 | 0 | 0 | |
49= | Emory University | 81.3 | 69.7 | 94.3 | 63 | 94 | 0 | 0 | |
49= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 81.3 | 78.1 | 87.1 | 78.7 | 81.7 | 0 | 0 | |
51= | KU Leuven | 81.1 | 76.5 | 89.8 | 71.1 | 83.8 | 0 | 0 | |
51= | Northwestern University | 81.1 | 69.3 | 93.6 | 69.2 | 92.2 | 0 | 0 | |
51= | The University of Queensland | 81.1 | 73.6 | 88.8 | 72.9 | 88.8 | 0 | 0 | |
54 | Kyoto University | 81 | 82.1 | 82.3 | 81.4 | 77.9 | 0 | 0 | |
55 | Boston University | 80.9 | 71.2 | 92.3 | 73.1 | 88.3 | 0 | 0 | |
56 | Peking University | 80.8 | 81.9 | 82.8 | 82.8 | 76.3 | 0 | 0 | |
57 | The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | 80.7 | 71 | 96 | 51.3 | 92.6 | 0 | 0 | |
58= | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 80.5 | 87.7 | 82 | 76.8 | 68.9 | 0 | 0 | |
58= | Mayo Medical School | 80.5 | 82.2 | 93.2 | 54.8 | 75.3 | 0 | 0 | |
60 | Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) | 80.4 | 79 | 87.4 | 70.3 | 79.8 | 0 | 0 | |
61 | University of Zurich | 80.2 | 70.6 | 90.7 | 73.8 | 87.8 | 0 | 0 | |
62 | UU | 80 | 71.4 | 91.9 | 64.6 | 88.1 | 0 | 0 | |
63 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | 79.6 | 68.9 | 97.2 | 61 | 86.5 | 0 | 0 | |
64= | Universitat de Barcelona | 79.4 | 72.1 | 90.4 | 65 | 85.8 | 0 | 0 | |
64= | Bristol, University of | 79.4 | 68.7 | 94.9 | 70.1 | 84.8 | 0 | 0 | |
66 | Université de Montréal | 79.3 | 67.3 | 91.7 | 67.2 | 90.8 | 0 | 0 | |
67= | Maastricht University | 79.2 | 73.6 | 89.3 | 65.2 | 83.5 | 0 | 0 | |
67= | Technical University of Munich | 79.2 | 69.3 | 91.6 | 76.4 | 83.7 | 0 | 0 | |
69= | ETH Zurich | 79.1 | 78 | 87.2 | 82.6 | 71.3 | 0 | 0 | |
69= | LU | 79.1 | 71.8 | 90.5 | 64.9 | 85 | 0 | 0 | |
71 | University of Birmingham | 79 | 69.6 | 92.8 | 59.3 | 88 | 0 | 0 | |
72= | Lund University | 78.6 | 70.1 | 90.1 | 67.8 | 85.1 | 0 | 0 | |
72= | University of Milan | 78.6 | 71.9 | 88.2 | 63 | 86.1 | 0 | 0 | |
74= | Fudan University | 78.5 | 75.7 | 80.9 | 80.2 | 79.9 | 0 | 0 | |
74= | Vanderbilt University | 78.5 | 66.3 | 93.8 | 60.4 | 89.8 | 0 | 0 | |
76 | University of Groningen | 78.4 | 68 | 91.2 | 62.6 | 88.6 | 0 | 0 | |
77 | Medical University of Vienna | 78.3 | 69.9 | 92.1 | 56 | 86.8 | 0 | 0 | |
78 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | 77.9 | 68.5 | 90.1 | 65.6 | 85.5 | 0 | 0 | |
79 | Newcastle University | 77.7 | 66.4 | 91.5 | 72.1 | 84.1 | 0 | 0 | |
80= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 77.6 | 73.5 | 81.3 | 76.9 | 80.8 | 0 | 0 | |
80= | University of Helsinki | 77.6 | 65.5 | 91.1 | 65.3 | 88.3 | 0 | 0 | |
82= | Brown University | 77.5 | 64.4 | 91.4 | 73.3 | 86.3 | 0 | 0 | |
82= | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 77.5 | 68.6 | 94.4 | 38.4 | 90.6 | 0 | 0 | |
84 | The Ohio State University | 77.4 | 62.6 | 91.9 | 68.9 | 89.9 | 0 | 0 | |
85= | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | 77.3 | 65.2 | 94.4 | 57.6 | 87.4 | 0 | 0 | |
85= | Universidade de São Paulo | 77.3 | 70.6 | 80 | 74.7 | 86.5 | 0 | 0 | |
87 | University of Cape Town | 77.2 | 68.6 | 89.6 | 59.3 | 85.6 | 0 | 0 | |
88 | University of Southampton | 77.1 | 65.4 | 93.5 | 61.9 | 85.6 | 0 | 0 | |
89= | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 76.9 | 75.2 | 84.2 | 78 | 71.8 | 0 | 0 | |
89= | University of Calgary | 76.9 | 63.5 | 91.6 | 67.2 | 87.4 | 0 | 0 | |
89= | Yonsei University | 76.9 | 72.7 | 83.8 | 72.7 | 78.3 | 0 | 0 | |
92= | The Australian National University | 76.8 | 71.1 | 87.2 | 76.6 | 75.6 | 0 | 0 | |
92= | University of Alberta | 76.8 | 66.7 | 89.8 | 64.7 | 84.9 | 0 | 0 | |
92= | Uppsala University | 76.8 | 65.1 | 91.1 | 64.4 | 86.3 | 0 | 0 | |
95 | University of Basel | 76.7 | 63 | 89.9 | 73 | 86.9 | 0 | 0 | |
96= | University of Geneva | 76.6 | 66.4 | 88.3 | 70.9 | 83.6 | 0 | 0 | |
96= | University of Oslo | 76.6 | 67.8 | 88.5 | 57.5 | 86.3 | 0 | 0 | |
98= | Osaka University | 76.4 | 75.2 | 80.9 | 74.4 | 74.6 | 0 | 0 | |
98= | University of Leeds | 76.4 | 69 | 90 | 64.3 | 79.4 | 0 | 0 | |
98= | University of Southern California | 76.4 | 64.3 | 90.2 | 63 | 87.2 | 0 | 0 |
QS: academic reputation, reputation of University among employers, the impact of research on scientific community.
Shanghai ranking: the graduates, who received the Nobel prize in physics/ chemistry or the fields medal in mathematics, teachers who have received the Nobel prize in physics/ chemistry or the fields medal in mathematics, the quality of research activities and funding.
THE: quality of teaching, quality research, dissemination of knowledge and international environment (the representation of foreign students and teachers).