Top 100 medical and pharmaceutical universities reputation in the world

Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in Medicine. A graph of 1.8B citations received by 83.2M academic papers made by 6,552 universities in the World was used to calculate publications’ ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don’t distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Harvard University – Massachusetts – United States
2. University of California – San Francisco – United States
3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor – United States
4. Johns Hopkins University – Maryland – United States
5. University of Toronto – Canada
6. Stanford University – California – United States
7. University of Washington – Seattle – United States
8. University of Pennsylvania – United States
9. Yale University – United States
10. University of California – Los Angeles – United States
11. University of Pittsburgh – United States
12. Columbia University – United States
13. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – United States
14. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
15. University of California-San Diego – United States
16. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center – United States
17. Karolinska Institute – Sweden
18. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – United States
19. Washington University in St Louis – United States
20. Boston University – United States
21. University College London – United Kingdom
22. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities – United States
23. Emory University – United States
24. Baylor College of Medicine – United States
25. University of Wisconsin – Madison – United States
26. University of British Columbia- Canada
27. Cornell University – United States
28. University of Southern California – United States
29. University of Chicago – United States
30. Northwestern University – United States
31. University of Sydney – Australia
32. University of Florida – United States
33. McGill University – Canada
34. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom
35. University of Melbourne – Australia
36. Ohio State University – United States
37. New York University – United States
38. University of Tokyo – Japan
39. University of Alabama at Birmingham – United States
40. Imperial College London – United Kingdom
41. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – United States
42. University of Sao Paulo – Brazil
43. University of California – Davis – United States
44. Case Western Reserve University – United States
45. Duke University – United States
46. University of Iowa – United States
47. Charite – Medical University of Berlin
48. Catholic University of Leuven – Belgium
49. University of Utah – United States
50. King’s College London – United Kingdom
51. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – United States
52. Osaka University – Japan
53. Kyoto University – Japan
54. University of Copenhagen – Denmark
55. McMaster University – Canada
56. University of Queensland – Australia
57. University of California – Berkeley – United States
58. Lund University – Sweden
59. Vanderbilt University – United States
60. University of Alberta – Canada
61. University of Amsterdam – Netherlands
62. University of Miami – United States
63. University of Manchester – United Kingdom
64. Indiana University – Bloomington – United States
65. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – United States
66. University of Milan – Italy
67. Oregon Health & Science University – United States
68. University of Arizona – United States
69. Pennsylvania State University – United States
70. Tel Aviv University – Israel
71. University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
72. University of Virginia – United States
73. Monash University – Australia
74. Rutgers University – New Brunswick – United States
75. University of Calgary – Canada
76. Chinese University of Hong Kong – China
77. Tufts University – United States
78. University of Helsinki – Finland
79. University of Munich – Germany
80. University of New South Wales – Australia
81. University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign – United States
82. University of Padua – Italy
83. University of California – Irvine – United States
84. University of Birmingham – United Kingdom
85. Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
86. Wayne State University – United States
87. Western University – Canada
88. University of Illinois at Chicago – United States
89. University of Zurich – Switzerland
90. University of Montreal – Canada
91. University of Gothenburg – Sweden
92. University of Kentucky – United States
93. Shanghai Jiao Tong University – China
94. University of Rochester – United States
95. Brown University – United States
96. Heidelberg University – Germany
97. University of Bern – Switzerland
98. Seoul National University – South Korea
99. University of Ottawa – Canada
100. Kyushu University – Japan

References:

1. Edurank, July 18, 2023. https://edurank.org/medicine/