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QS World University Rankings by Subject: Medicine
| Rank | Title | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100.0 | 100.0 | 84.0 | 93.6 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 81.7 | 94.1 | 74.1 | 79.9 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 62.6 | 83.2 | 100.0 | 79.6 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 76.5 | 90.0 | 79.2 | 78.9 |
| 5 | Stanford University | United States | 74.9 | 66.3 | 70.4 | 72.2 |
| 6 | Yale University | United States | 67.1 | 55.9 | 70.3 | 67.3 |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 63.5 | 54.5 | 67.2 | 64.1 |
| 8 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 63.7 | 29.6 | 65.7 | 61.1 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 56.9 | 45.6 | 63.9 | 58.6 |
| 10 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 50.6 | 27.0 | 71.2 | 56.5 |
| 11 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 32.4 | 38.1 | 90.8 | 56.3 |
| 12 | University of Toronto | Canada | 55.7 | 47.9 | 54.0 | 54.2 |
| 13 | McGill University | Canada | 45.9 | 63.0 | 60.4 | 53.4 |
| 14 | Duke University | United States | 39.7 | 57.3 | 68.6 | 53.0 |
| 15 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 53.2 | 60.4 | 49.6 | 52.5 |
| 16 | Columbia University | United States | 42.8 | 60.8 | 62.2 | 52.4 |
| 17 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 45.2 | 24.5 | 67.5 | 52.1 |
| 18 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 58.3 | 57.9 | 42.3 | 51.9 |
| 19 | University of Chicago | United States | 41.2 | 46.4 | 66.5 | 51.8 |
| 20 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 62.8 | 45.7 | 38.2 | 51.3 |
| 21 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 40.1 | 48.6 | 63.5 | 50.3 |
| 22 | University of Michigan | United States | 39.5 | 44.3 | 64.8 | 50.1 |
| 23 | Cornell University | United States | 40.3 | 47.2 | 61.0 | 49.3 |
| 24 | University of Washington | United States | 41.4 | 27.8 | 64.2 | 49.2 |
| 25 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 42.7 | 46.9 | 57.0 | 48.8 |
| 26 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 45.2 | 37.0 | 56.0 | 48.7 |
| 27= | Rockefeller University | United States | 20.4 | 0.0 | 95.6 | 48.4 |
| 27= | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 38.1 | 38.6 | 63.6 | 48.4 |
| 29 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 49.9 | 46.4 | 46.3 | 48.1 |
| 30 | Kings College London (University of London) | United Kingdom | 39.3 | 31.9 | 62.6 | 47.9 |
| 31 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 43.5 | 45.4 | 49.7 | 46.2 |
| 32 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 30.3 | 48.7 | 60.8 | 44.3 |
| 33= | The University of Queensland | Australia | 39.2 | 52.6 | 45.6 | 43.1 |
| 33= | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 27.0 | 26.5 | 67.3 | 43.1 |
| 35 | Boston University | United States | 26.0 | 14.7 | 69.9 | 42.4 |
| 36= | Monash University | Australia | 39.7 | 46.8 | 44.5 | 42.3 |
| 36= | The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | United States | 17.1 | 0.0 | 84.4 | 42.3 |
| 38 | Kyoto University | Japan | 40.5 | 47.7 | 41.6 | 41.7 |
| 39 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 37.9 | 47.5 | 44.8 | 41.6 |
| 40 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 29.1 | 0.8 | 65.6 | 40.9 |
| 41 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 24.9 | 18.8 | 63.7 | 39.8 |
| 42= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 25.8 | 32.5 | 58.4 | 39.5 |
| 42= | Leiden University | Netherlands | 26.9 | 24.4 | 59.0 | 39.5 |
| 42= | McMaster University | Canada | 28.6 | 35.7 | 54.1 | 39.5 |
| 45 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 33.4 | 34.3 | 47.9 | 39.3 |
| 46= | Australian National University | Australia | 36.0 | 41.8 | 42.3 | 39.1 |
| 46= | University of Helsinki | Finland | 24.4 | 23.3 | 61.4 | 39.1 |
| 48 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 20.6 | 34.1 | 62.6 | 38.8 |
| 49= | New York University (NYU) | United States | 27.9 | 34.4 | 53.2 | 38.7 |
| 49= | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 34.7 | 36.8 | 44.1 | 38.7 |
| 51-100 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 18.5 | 39.3 | 55.9 | |
| 51-100 | Baylor College of Medicine | United States | 18.3 | 15.2 | 60.8 | |
| 51-100 | Brown University | United States | 18.9 | 38.6 | 49.8 | |
| 51-100 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 20.5 | 20.8 | 53.5 | |
| 51-100 | Dartmouth College | United States | 13.2 | 34.8 | 62.0 | |
| 51-100 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 22.0 | 16.1 | 51.7 | |
| 51-100 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 24.9 | 28.4 | 54.2 | |
| 51-100 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | 19.0 | 0.0 | 56.0 | |
| 51-100 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 27.0 | 18.4 | 53.9 | |
| 51-100 | Lund University | Sweden | 19.1 | 42.9 | 50.9 | |
| 51-100 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 19.4 | 16.8 | 63.6 | |
| 51-100 | Mayo Medical School | United States | 16.6 | 0.0 | 71.7 | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 39.6 | 22.6 | 29.4 | |
| 51-100 | Northwestern University | United States | 20.9 | 30.7 | 56.1 | |
| 51-100 | Osaka University | Japan | 29.1 | 27.0 | 37.4 | |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 10.3 | 19.8 | 61.6 | |
| 51-100 | Purdue University | United States | 18.9 | 34.6 | 47.9 | |
| 51-100 | Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom | 10.5 | 3.3 | 72.5 | |
| 51-100 | Technische Universität München | Germany | 19.0 | 33.4 | 49.4 | |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 20.5 | 33.4 | 56.7 | |
| 51-100 | Tufts University | United States | 13.9 | 2.7 | 70.9 | |
| 51-100 | Universität Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 14.4 | 30.6 | 57.2 | |
| 51-100 | Universität Freiburg | Germany | 23.0 | 23.6 | 51.1 | |
| 51-100 | Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium | 18.3 | 0.0 | 61.4 | |
| 51-100 | Université de Montréal | Canada | 24.0 | 3.7 | 50.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom | 14.7 | 24.2 | 64.6 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Adelaide | Australia | 29.5 | 35.3 | 44.1 | |
| 51-100 | University of Alberta | Canada | 25.7 | 47.5 | 45.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 29.0 | 3.6 | 53.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Bath | United Kingdom | 10.6 | 27.1 | 62.7 | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Davis | United States | 19.6 | 28.1 | 56.2 | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 21.1 | 0.0 | 61.4 | |
| 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 23.8 | 48.2 | 53.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom | 18.1 | 3.1 | 68.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 4.8 | 15.2 | 69.8 | |
| 51-100 | University of Ghent | Belgium | 20.1 | 17.2 | 51.0 | |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 19.6 | 30.5 | 57.4 | |
| 51-100 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 10.3 | 47.9 | 65.4 | |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota | United States | 21.2 | 27.4 | 54.2 | |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 30.7 | 41.3 | 44.7 | |
| 51-100 | University of Otago | New Zealand | 26.5 | 20.5 | 46.8 | |
| 51-100 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 17.9 | 0.0 | 64.0 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 12.2 | 34.5 | 57.2 | |
| 51-100 | University of Virginia | United States | 15.8 | 24.5 | 54.1 | |
| 51-100 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 28.9 | 41.8 | 48.5 | |
| 51-100 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 22.6 | 4.8 | 62.0 | |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 20.7 | 24.9 | 54.9 | |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 23.4 | 11.1 | 57.5 | |
| 51-100 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 17.6 | 21.5 | 55.5 | |
| 51-100 | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 21.3 | 26.6 | 47.6 | |
| 101-150 | Case Western Reserve University | United States | 16.3 | 18.5 | 52.4 | |
| 101-150 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 22.1 | 19.6 | 34.2 | |
| 101-150 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Germany | 13.6 | 17.2 | 56.5 | |
| 101-150 | Emory University | United States | 14.3 | 3.7 | 58.4 | |
| 101-150 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Germany | 13.3 | 25.1 | 48.1 | |
| 101-150 | Georgetown University | United States | 13.3 | 31.9 | 45.8 | |
| 101-150 | Laval University | Canada | 10.9 | 18.2 | 51.8 | |
| 101-150 | Medical University of Vienna | Austria | 12.0 | 0.0 | 54.1 | |
| 101-150 | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | United States | 5.4 | 0.0 | 59.3 | |
| 101-150 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 14.9 | 11.5 | 46.8 | |
| 101-150 | Ohio State University | United States | 18.3 | 18.5 | 46.2 | |
| 101-150 | Peking University | China | 39.7 | 48.3 | 17.2 | |
| 101-150 | Queen's University | Canada | 12.9 | 37.3 | 43.9 | |
| 101-150 | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 28.3 | 26.1 | 29.6 | |
| 101-150 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 3.6 | 35.0 | 55.7 | |
| 101-150 | Tsinghua University | China | 26.7 | 37.0 | 25.8 | |
| 101-150 | Tulane University | United States | 11.7 | 0.0 | 51.5 | |
| 101-150 | Università degli Studi di Milano | Italy | 14.4 | 19.8 | 48.5 | |
| 101-150 | Università di Bologna (UNIBO) | Italy | 11.8 | 30.1 | 45.6 | |
| 101-150 | Universitat de Barcelona (UB) | Spain | 20.6 | 24.7 | 46.3 | |
| 101-150 | Universität Hamburg | Germany | 6.8 | 23.7 | 53.5 | |
| 101-150 | Universität zu Köln | Germany | 11.3 | 23.2 | 46.9 | |
| 101-150 | Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Belgium | 10.3 | 0.0 | 62.8 | |
| 101-150 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 12.6 | 37.8 | 49.4 | |
| 101-150 | University of Antwerp | Belgium | 12.0 | 15.6 | 54.7 | |
| 101-150 | University of Arizona | United States | 9.9 | 17.2 | 51.1 | |
| 101-150 | University of Basel | Switzerland | 12.6 | 20.3 | 48.2 | |
| 101-150 | University of Bergen | Norway | 12.5 | 15.2 | 52.2 | |
| 101-150 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 16.8 | 35.8 | 48.7 | |
| 101-150 | University of Calgary | Canada | 20.8 | 23.3 | 44.3 | |
| 101-150 | University of Eastern Finland | Finland | 9.3 | 0.0 | 66.2 | |
| 101-150 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 16.1 | 11.0 | 51.9 | |
| 101-150 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 10.9 | 0.0 | 55.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 13.9 | 10.2 | 48.0 | |
| 101-150 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 17.8 | 24.8 | 44.6 | |
| 101-150 | University of Iowa | United States | 9.3 | 0.0 | 54.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland | 2.2 | 15.0 | 60.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom | 10.4 | 7.0 | 61.5 | |
| 101-150 | University of Liege | Belgium | 11.0 | 15.2 | 56.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | 16.1 | 14.3 | 48.2 | |
| 101-150 | University of Newcastle | Australia | 21.7 | 28.3 | 36.1 | |
| 101-150 | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 15.0 | 27.1 | 46.6 | |
| 101-150 | University of Oslo | Norway | 16.1 | 16.3 | 47.4 | |
| 101-150 | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 9.9 | 46.0 | 46.2 | |
| 101-150 | University of South Carolina | United States | 10.1 | 0.0 | 55.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 13.9 | 4.8 | 53.8 | |
| 101-150 | University of Southern California | United States | 7.5 | 22.2 | 62.0 | |
| 101-150 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 5.9 | 25.4 | 60.7 | |
| 101-150 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 9.6 | 38.8 | 47.5 | |
| 101-150 | University of York | United Kingdom | 11.4 | 29.5 | 52.0 | |
| 101-150 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster | Germany | 11.3 | 1.4 | 51.5 | |
| 151-200 | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand | 27.2 | 6.7 | 19.8 | |
| 151-200 | Concordia University | Canada | 9.4 | 20.4 | 42.5 | |
| 151-200 | Dalhousie University | Canada | 12.1 | 31.3 | 39.4 | |
| 151-200 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 7.7 | 37.9 | 39.6 | |
| 151-200 | Flinders University | Australia | 16.2 | 22.9 | 37.2 | |
| 151-200 | Fudan University | China | 25.9 | 45.8 | 15.2 | |
| 151-200 | George Washington University | United States | 11.1 | 22.8 | 41.6 | |
| 151-200 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 10.2 | 17.2 | 45.6 | |
| 151-200 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 9.9 | 9.4 | 50.2 | |
| 151-200 | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | Germany | 7.2 | 1.6 | 50.6 | |
| 151-200 | Kobe University | Japan | 17.2 | 15.2 | 30.4 | |
| 151-200 | Loyola University Chicago | United States | 8.1 | 0.0 | 49.5 | |
| 151-200 | Macquarie University | Australia | 7.0 | 38.5 | 38.8 | |
| 151-200 | Mahidol University | Thailand | 28.4 | 15.7 | 25.9 | |
| 151-200 | Nagoya University | Japan | 15.0 | 25.2 | 34.3 | |
| 151-200 | National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan | 22.3 | 12.0 | 28.5 | |
| 151-200 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | 22.0 | 11.0 | 34.7 | |
| 151-200 | Queen's University of Belfast | United Kingdom | 5.2 | 25.1 | 43.8 | |
| 151-200 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 8.7 | 0.0 | 52.6 | |
| 151-200 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Germany | 9.0 | 22.3 | 48.0 | |
| 151-200 | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | 8.2 | 35.0 | 40.3 | |
| 151-200 | Sapienza - Università di Roma | Italy | 9.2 | 22.7 | 39.9 | |
| 151-200 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 14.5 | 4.8 | 44.7 | |
| 151-200 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 10.2 | 24.2 | 45.7 | |
| 151-200 | Texas A&M University | United States | 9.8 | 37.1 | 42.5 | |
| 151-200 | Umeå University | Sweden | 8.5 | 0.0 | 50.2 | |
| 151-200 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain | 11.6 | 17.1 | 46.0 | |
| 151-200 | Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) | Italy | 8.1 | 13.7 | 43.3 | |
| 151-200 | Universität Leipzig | Germany | 7.4 | 0.0 | 49.1 | |
| 151-200 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 13.0 | 2.7 | 41.9 | |
| 151-200 | Universität Düsseldorf | Germany | 5.8 | 13.7 | 50.7 | |
| 151-200 | Université de Nice, Sophia-Antipolis | France | 7.6 | 0.0 | 50.5 | |
| 151-200 | Université de Strasbourg | France | 14.0 | 2.1 | 43.7 | |
| 151-200 | Université Lille 2 | France | 2.2 | 15.2 | 49.7 | |
| 151-200 | Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologie | France | 7.6 | 0.0 | 56.1 | |
| 151-200 | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 | France | 9.1 | 0.0 | 44.0 | |
| 151-200 | Université Montpellier 1 | France | 8.5 | 15.2 | 41.0 | |
| 151-200 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France | 14.0 | 0.0 | 42.9 | |
| 151-200 | University at Buffalo SUNY | United States | 5.0 | 0.0 | 54.6 | |
| 151-200 | University College Cork | Ireland | 15.0 | 32.0 | 38.9 | |
| 151-200 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 6.6 | 15.2 | 44.2 | |
| 151-200 | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 8.8 | 22.8 | 45.6 | |
| 151-200 | University of Florida | United States | 6.4 | 17.2 | 52.2 | |
| 151-200 | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) | United States | 10.8 | 2.7 | 50.1 | |
| 151-200 | University of Ottawa | Canada | 9.9 | 0.0 | 47.3 | |
| 151-200 | University of Oulu | Finland | 8.0 | 17.2 | 48.8 | |
| 151-200 | University of Southern Denmark | Denmark | 5.7 | 26.9 | 44.8 | |
| 151-200 | University of Tampere | Finland | 4.8 | 15.2 | 50.6 | |
| 151-200 | University of Turku | Finland | 9.4 | 27.9 | 46.7 | |
| 151-200 | The University of Western Ontario | Canada | 10.4 | 18.5 | 41.3 | |
| 151-200 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Belgium | 7.6 | 10.7 | 46.5 |
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2011/12
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In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Medicine 2011, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in Medicine or participate in a“ Medical Scientist Training Program”, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published. QS reserves the right to adjust these tables as new information becomes available.
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