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Global Ranking of Medical Universities
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Harvard University is routinely named the best medical school in the U.S., but how does it fare in a global ranking? Universities in the United States overwhelmingly fill the top 15.
Harvard University routinely snags the top spot in annual rankings of U.S. medical schools. The story is the same even in global rankings, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The Center for World-Class Universities, Graduate School of Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, annually ranks more than 1,000 universities in five fields: Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences; Life and Agriculture Sciences; Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy; and Social Sciences.
In the field of medicine, ARWU ranks universities by the following indicators: the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals; number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific; number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science; number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index; and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.
The top 50 from 2012 is heavily dominated by universities in the United States, with 32 of the top 50 spots. All but three spots in the top 15 went to American universities.
15. University College London
Country: United Kingdom
Total Score: 61.4
Total Enrollment: 19,673
International Students: 7,203 (37%)
14. Mayo Medical School
Country: United States
Total Score: 61.8
Total Enrollment: 57,000
International Students: N/A
13. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Country: United States
Total Score: 62.3
Total Enrollment: 40,909
International Students: 3,424 (8%)
12. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor
Country: United States
Total Score: 64
Total Enrollment: 39,694
International Students: 4,666 (12%)
11. Karolinska Institute
Country: Sweden
Total Score: 64.1
Total Enrollment: 7,051
International Students: N/A
10. University of Pittsburgh
Country: United States
Total Score: 64.7
Total Enrollment: 25,359
International Students: 1,957 (8%)
9. Stanford University
Country: United States
Total Score: 65.4
Total Enrollment: 15,861
International Students: 3,581 (23%)
8. University of Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom
Total Score: 68.6
Total Enrollment: 17,868
International Students: 5,526 (31%)
7. University of California, Los Angeles
Country: United States
Total Score: 69.1
Total Enrollment: 37,633
International Students: 3,169 (8%)
6. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Country: United States
Total Score: 69.6
Total Enrollment: 2,004
International Students: 142 (7%)
5. Columbia University
Country: United States
Total Score: 71
Total Enrollment: 21,817
International Students: 5,280 (24%)
4. The Johns Hopkins University
Country: United States
Total Score: 76.9
Total Enrollment: 15,116
International Students: 2,484 (16%)
3. University of Washington
Country: United States
Total Score: 78.9
Total Enrollment: 40,280
International Students: 3,270 (8%)
2. University of California, San Francisco
Country: United States
Total Score: 87.5
Total Enrollment: 3,119
International Students: 133 (4%)
1. Harvard University
Country: United States of America
Total Score: 100
Total Enrollment: 21,260
International Students: 4,526 (21%)
Harvard University is ranked number one since 2003 in not just the clinical medicine and pharmacy field, but also natural sciences and mathematics, life and agriculture sciences and social sciences. The only field in which Harvard has not taken the top spot is engineering/technology and computer sciences — over the last six years its average ranking is around 38.
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