Shanghai Ranking 2016: top universities for clinical medicine and pharmacy

Academic Ranking of World Universities reveals its top universities for life and agriculture sciences according to the 2016 subject ranking league tables, known as the ARWU-FIELD rankings

September 7 2016

By Carly Minsky

The world’s top universities for medicine and pharmacy in 2016 are published in a ranking of 200 universities by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

Harvard University maintains the top spot for the tenth year, alongside more than 70 other universities in the United States in the full ranking.

The UK and Germany are the most represented European countries, but unsurprisingly Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which specialises in medical science, is the highest ranked university in mainland Europe in position 12.

Prestigious British universities Oxford and Cambridge both appear in the top 15 of the ranking, and Oxford is beaten by University College London which boasts a top-10 medical programme.

More ShanghaiRanking results:

-Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016: main results
-Shanghai subject ranking 2016 overview
-Full results for natural sciences and mathematics
-Full results for life and agriculture sciences
-Full results for engineering, technology and computer sciences
-Full results for social sciences

There are also plenty of opportunities to study in Asia and the Pacific, with nine Australian universities in the ranking, one in New Zealand, and 18 across Asia.

The University of Washington in Seattle in the United States performs remarkably well in the medicine and pharmacy ranking, beating almost every other university to second place. For most other disciplines it does not make it into the top 25, with the exception of life sciences.

In the full ranking, 28 countries have at least one university featured, including Taiwan, Israel, South Africa and Brazil.

Results for the ARWU-FIELD rankings are derived from a set of indicators which include alumni Nobel prizes, research citations and publications.

Clinical medicine and pharmacy does not include psychology and psychiatry degrees, since these are counted as interdisciplinary by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

Top universities for medicine and pharmacy: ARWU-FIELD 2016

World Rank	Institution	Country	Region
1	Harvard University	USA	Americas
2	University of Washington	USA	Americas
3	Stanford University	USA	Americas
4	University of Cambridge	UK	Europe
5	Johns Hopkins University	USA	Americas
6	University of California, San Francisco	USA	Americas
7	Columbia University	USA	Americas
8	University College London	UK	Europe
9	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA	Americas
10	Yale University	USA	Americas
11	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Americas
12	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	Europe
12	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA	Americas
14	University of Oxford	UK	Europe
15	Vanderbilt University	USA	Americas
16	University of Pennsylvania	USA	Americas
17	University of Pittsburgh	USA	Americas
18	Mayo Medical School	USA	Americas
19	University of California, San Diego	USA	Americas
20	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	USA	Americas
21	Duke University	USA	Americas
22	University of Michigan	USA	Americas
23	Imperial College London	UK	Europe
24	Cornell University	USA	Americas
25	University of Minnesota	USA	Americas
26	University of Melbourne	Australia	Asia/Pacific
27	Northwestern University	USA	Americas
28	University of Utah	USA	Americas
29	Washington University in St Louis	USA	Americas
30	University of Wisconsin	USA	Americas
31	University of Toronto	Canada	Americas
32	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	Europe
33	McMaster University	Canada	Americas
34	Monash University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
35	KU Leuven	Belgium	Europe
36	University of Oslo	Norway	Europe
36	University of Sydney	Australia	Asia/Pacific
36	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Europe
39	Boston University	USA	Americas
40	King's College London	UK	Europe
41	Leiden University	Netherlands	Europe
42	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	Europe
43	University of Chicago	USA	Americas
44	University of Edinburgh	UK	Europe
45	Ohio State University	USA	Americas
46	University of Southern California	USA	Americas
47	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Americas
48	University of Nottingham	UK	Europe
49	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	USA	Americas
50	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	Europe
51-75	Baylor College of Medicine	USA	Americas
51-75	Cardiff University	UK	Europe
51-75	Case Western Reserve University	USA	Americas
51-75	Emory University	USA	Americas
51-75	Heidelberg University	Germany	Europe
51-75	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	UK	Europe
51-75	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Americas
51-75	McGill University	Canada	Americas
51-75	Oregon Health and Science University	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Glasgow	UK	Europe
51-75	The University of Queensland	Australia	Asia/Pacific
51-75	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Western Australia	Australia	Asia/Pacific
51-75	University of Barcelona	Spain	Europe
51-75	University of Basel	Switzerland	Europe
51-75	University of Birmingham	UK	Europe
51-75	University of Bristol	UK	Europe
51-75	University of British Columbia	Canada	Americas
51-75	University of California, Davis	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Europe
51-75	University of Groningen	Netherlands	Europe
51-75	University of Helsinki	Finland	Europe
51-75	Paris Descartes University	France	Europe
51-75	Paris-Sud University	France	Europe
51-75	University of Rochester	USA	Americas
76-100	Aarhus University	Denmark	Europe
76-100	Brown University	USA	Americas
76-100	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	Europe
76-100	Ghent University	Belgium	Europe
76-100	Maastricht University	Netherlands	Europe
76-100	Medical University of Vienna	Austria	Europe
76-100	New York University	USA	Americas
76-100	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	Europe
76-100	Queen Mary University of London	UK	Europe
76-100	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Europe
76-100	University of Adelaide	Australia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	University of Calgary	Canada	Americas
76-100	University of Sheffield	UK	Europe
76-100	Tufts University	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Alberta	Canada	Americas
76-100	University of Bern	Switzerland	Europe
76-100	University of Florida	USA	Americas
76-100	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany	Europe
76-100	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	USA	Americas
76-100	LMU Munich	Germany	Europe
76-100	University of Turin	Italy	Europe
76-100	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France	Europe
76-100	Uppsala University	Sweden	Europe
76-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	Europe
101-150	China Medical University, Taiwan	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Deakin University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Hannover Medical School	Germany	Europe
101-150	Indiana University-Purdue University	USA	Americas
101-150	Kyoto University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Lund University	Sweden	Europe
101-150	Medical University of South Carolina	USA	Americas
101-150	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece	Europe
101-150	Newcastle University	UK	Europe
101-150	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	Europe
101-150	Osaka University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Rush University	USA	Americas
101-150	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	USA	Americas
101-150	Seoul National University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Manchester	UK	Europe
101-150	University of New South Wales	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Tokyo	Japan	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Thomas Jefferson University	USA	Americas
101-150	University at Buffalo	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Bologna	Italy	Europe
101-150	University of Bordeaux	France	Europe
101-150	University of California, Irvine	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Cincinnati	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Colorado at Denver	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Freiburg	Germany	Europe
101-150	Justus Liebig University Giessen	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Iowa	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	Europe
101-150	University of Leeds	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Leipzig	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Liverpool	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Montreal	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Ottawa	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Padua	Italy	Europe
101-150	University of South Florida	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Southampton	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Tübingen	Germany	Europe
101-150	Ulm University	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Wuerzburg	Germany	Europe
101-150	Virginia Commonwealth University	USA	Americas
101-150	Wake Forest University	USA	Americas
101-150	Wayne State University	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Western Ontario	Canada	Americas
151-200	Aalborg University	Denmark	Europe
151-200	Aix-Marseille University	France	Europe
151-200	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain	Europe
151-200	Charles University in Prague	Czech	Europe
151-200	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France	Europe
151-200	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	Europe
151-200	Fudan University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Georgetown University	USA	Americas
151-200	Laval University	Canada	Americas
151-200	Medical College of Wisconsin	USA	Americas
151-200	Medical University of Graz	Austria	Europe
151-200	National Taiwan University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
151-200	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia/Pacific
151-200	National Yang-Ming University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Peking University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Queen's University	Canada	Americas
151-200	Rockefeller University	USA	Americas
151-200	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	Europe
151-200	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Sun Yat-sen University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Tel Aviv University	Israel	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Temple University	USA	Americas
151-200	Chinese University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
151-200	George Washington University	USA	Americas
151-200	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Auckland	New Zealand	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Newcastle	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Texas at Austin	USA	Americas
151-200	Umeå University	Sweden	Europe
151-200	University of Arkansas	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Bergen	Norway	Europe
151-200	University of Bochum	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Bonn	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Duesseldorf	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany	Europe
151-200	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	Europe
151-200	University of Florence	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of Miami	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Milan	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of Naples Federico II	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of São Paulo	Brazil	Americas
151-200	University of South Carolina	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark	Europe
151-200	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	USA	Americas
151-200	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	Africas
151-200	University of Turku	Finland	Europe
151-200	University of Virginia	USA	Americas
151-200	Yeshiva University	USA	Americas
151-200	Yonsei University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific