World top medicine universities by nation in 2009

Column chart showing the top 100 world-class universities in medicine and pharmacy sciences in 2009. United States have 55. United Kingdom 11. Canada and Germany 5 each. Netherlands 4. Australia 3. Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland 2 each. Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Singapore, Spain and Taiwan 1 each.

The best medical schools are American. US and Canada have 60% of top 100 world-class medical schools, followed by Europe with 32%, Asia & Pacific with 7% and Latin America with 1%.

Top 100 World-class Universities Medicine and Pharmacy Sciences
Ranking in the Field ¹		Institution	Country
2009	2008	Institution	Country
1	1	Harvard University	USA
2	2	University of California, San Francisco	USA
3	3	University of Washington	USA
4	4	The Johns Hopkins University	USA
5	5	Columbia University	USA
6	6	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
7	7	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA
8	9	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
8	8	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	USA
10	13	University College London	UK
11	11	Stanford University	USA
12	10	University of Pittsburgh	USA
13	12	University of Oxford	UK
14	13	Mayo Medical School	USA
15	16	University of Cambridge	UK
16	15	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
17	17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
18	19	Vanderbilt University	USA
19	21	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	USA
20	20	University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA
21	18	Yale University	USA
22	23	Duke University	USA
23	26	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UK
24	22	University of Pennsylvania	USA
25	25	University of California, San Diego	USA
26	24	Tufts University	USA
27	29	University of Nottingham	UK
28	28	Emory University	USA
29	27	University of Toronto	Canada
30	43	King's College London	UK
31	31	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	USA
32	33	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
33	30	Cornell University	USA
33	36	Leiden University	Netherlands
35	32	University of California, Berkeley	USA
36	35	Boston University	USA
36	33	University of Zurich	Switzerland
38	37	University of Munich	Germany
39	52-75	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
40	41	Brown University	USA
40	40	McGill University	Canada
42	38	Kyoto University	Japan
42	39	Northwestern University	USA
42	47	University of Colorado at Denver	USA
45	42	University of Florida	USA
46	45	University of Basel	Switzerland
46	46	University of Milan	Italy
48	48	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
49	50	University of Rochester	USA
50	44	University of Chicago	USA
51-76	52-75	Baylor College of Medicine	USA
51-76	52-75	Case Western Reserve University	USA
51-76	52-75	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
51-76	52-75	Erasmus University	Netherlands
51-76	52-75	McMaster University	Canada
51-76	52-75	New York University	USA
51-76	52-75	The University of Glasgow	UK
51-76	52-75	The University of Manchester	UK
51-76	52-75	The University of Queensland	Australia
51-76	76-107	The University of Sheffield	UK
51-76	52-75	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	USA
51-76	52-75	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	USA
51-76	48	The University of Tokyo	Japan
51-76	52-75	The University of Western Australia	Australia
51-76	52-75	University of Arizona	USA
51-76	52-75	University of Bristol	UK
51-76	52-75	University of Frankfurt	Germany
51-76	76-107	University of Heidelberg	Germany
51-76	52-75	University of Helsinki	Finland
51-76	52-75	University of Iowa	USA
51-76	52-75	University of Maryland, Baltimore	USA
51-76	52-75	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	USA
51-76	52-75	University of Melbourne	Australia
51-76	50	University of Southern California	USA
51-76	52-75	University of Utah	USA
51-76	52-75	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
77-100	76-107	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium
77-100		National Taiwan University	Taiwan
77-100		National University of Singapore	Singapore
77-100		Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
77-100	76-107	State University of New York at Buffalo	USA
77-100	76-107	The George Washington University	USA
77-100	76-107	Thomas Jefferson University	USA
77-100	76-107	University of Alberta	Canada
77-100	76-107	University of Barcelona	Spain
77-100	52-75	University of Cincinnati	USA
77-100	76-107	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
77-100	76-107	University of Freiburg	Germany
77-100	76-107	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA
77-100	76-107	University of Manitoba	Canada
77-100	76-107	University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey	USA
77-100	76-107	University of Miami	USA
77-100		University of Nebraska Medical Center	USA
77-100	76-107	University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5)	France
77-100	76-107	University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
77-100	76-107	University of Southampton	UK
77-100	76-107	University of Tuebingen	Germany
77-100	76-107	University of Virginia	USA
77-100	76-107	Uppsala University	Sweden
77-100	76-107	Virginia Commonwealth University	USA
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.

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