World’s top 400 universities for Medicine announced. Harvard ranked world’s best; Oxford second

Écrit par QS World University Rankings | 24 Mars 2016

London, 22nd March 2016: The sixth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, released today on TopUniversities.com, features a record-breaking 42 disciplines, making it the largest-ever ranking of its kind. Harvard University has been ranked as the world’s best university for the study of Medicine for a second consecutive year.

The expert opinion of 6,164 academics and 1,933 employers informed the results for this particular subject, alongside the analysis of 5,236,881 research papers sourced from the Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database. This contributed to QS evaluating 1,938 institutions that offer courses in Medicine, provisionally ranking 861, and finally publishing the world’s top 400 in the subject.

In second place for Medicine is the University of Oxford, followed by its perennial rival, the University of Cambridge. Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University are also in the top five.

This year’s Medicine ranking features the world’s top 400 places to study Medicine. The most-featured country in the ranking is the United States, which takes 12 top-20 places, and 79 places overall.

Excellence is not simply confined to the US, however. This year’s ranking for Medicine features institutions from 50 different countries, with top-20 places for Sweden’s Karolinska Institute (10^th), Canada’s University of Toronto (12^th), and Australia’s Universities of Sydney and Melbourne (17^th and 18^th respectively). Asia’s best university is the National University of Singapore, ranked 22^nd, while Japan’s University of Tokyo is ranked joint 23^rd.

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) continue to take the lion’s share of top places, leading in 24 subjects between them. Each takes twelve leading positions.

Ben Sowter, Head of the QS Intelligence Unit, said: “Though the US and UK remain dominant, our most inclusive rankings ever show that excellence can be found in an ever-increasing number of places. Nations like Austria, South Africa, Finland, Brazil, China, and Sweden can be found in the top ten of our tables, while our new top 50 for Medicine acknowledges academic excellence in 14 different countries.”

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