World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine

Posted September 21, 2010

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U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world's top universities for life sciences and biomedicine in 2010.

 Schools Ranked by Location World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Asian and Middle Eastern Universities World's Best Universities: Australian and New Zealand Universities World's Best Universities: British and European Universities World's Best Universities: Canadian Universities World's Best Universities: Latin American Universities   Schools Ranked by Subject World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Arts and Humanities Universities World's Best Universities: Engineering and IT Universities World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities World's Best Universities: Natural & Physical Sciences Universities World's Best Universities: Social Sciences Universities   Methodologies World's Best Universities: Methodology World's Best Universities: About the Rankings World's Best Universities: Academic Peer Review World's Best Universities: Citations per Faculty Member World's Best Universities: Employer Review Survey World's Best Universities: International Student and International Faculty Factors World's Best Universities: Statistical Scores and Weightings World's Best Universities: Student-to-Faculty Ratio World's Best Universities: Subject Area Rankings 

Rank		Subject Score	Citations per Paper
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	100.0	13.5
2	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	92.4	11.4
3	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	82.2	11.9
4	Stanford UniversityUnited States	75.3	12.0
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)United States	70.2	11.8
6	The University of TokyoJapan	65.8	7.5
7	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	65.7	11.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States	63.9	16.2
9	Yale UniversityUnited States	63.3	11.2
10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States	60.0	11.0
11	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	58.3	10.2
12	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)United States	56.7	13.2
13	National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore	53.6	6.2
14	University of MelbourneAustralia	52.9	7.9
15	UCL (University College London)United Kingdom	52.7	8.7
16	University of TorontoCanada	51.7	8.8
17	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	50.0	9.9
18	Kyoto UniversityJapan	49.7	8.2
19	University of SydneyAustralia	48.8	6.3
20	University of British Columbia (UBC)Canada	48.7	8.4
21	Peking UniversityChina	47.8	3.4
22	McGill UniversityCanada	45.7	9.6
23	Karolinska InstituteSweden	45.6	8.7
24	Columbia UniversityUnited States	45.1	11.9
25	Cornell UniversityUnited States	44.8	9.3
26	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	44.6	N/A
27	Duke UniversityUnited States	43.6	11.5
28	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States	43.4	15.3
29	University of WashingtonUnited States	43.1	12.0
30	King's College London (KCL)United Kingdom	42.6	8.2
31	University of ChicagoUnited States	42.4	11.2
32	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Switzerland	41.4	10.6
33	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)United States	40.6	10.5
33	University of MichiganUnited States	40.6	10.6
35	Princeton UniversityUnited States	40.4	11.5
36	Australian National University (ANU)Australia	40.3	7.4
37	University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong	38.5	8.0
38	Seoul National University (SNU)South Korea	38.1	5.0
39	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	36.7	8.4
40	University of Queensland (UQ)Australia	36.4	7.1
41	University of AucklandNew Zealand	36.2	6.8
42	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States	35.8	11.4
43	National Taiwan University (NTU)Taiwan	34.6	5.0
44	University of California, Davis (UCD)United States	34.5	7.7
45	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany	34.1	8.4
46	University of New South Wales (UNSW)Australia	33.9	6.9
47	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States	33.4	9.4
47	Rockefeller UniversityUnited States	33.4	N/A
49	Monash UniversityAustralia	33.3	7.2
50	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	32.2	8.6
50	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)Germany	32.2	7.1
52	Uppsala UniversitySweden	31.8	7.9
53	University of ZurichSwitzerland	31.6	8.6
54	Osaka UniversityJapan	31.1	8.1
55	Tsinghua UniversityChina	31.0	4.5
56	University of CopenhagenDenmark	30.6	8.1
57	University of OtagoNew Zealand	27.8	6.0
58	Lund UniversitySweden	27.7	8.4
58	University of HelsinkiFinland	27.7	9.3
58	King Saud University (KSU)Saudi Arabia	27.7	1.7
61	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)France	27.4	10.5
62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong	27.3	6.3
62	University of Western Australia (UWA)Australia	27.3	7.1
64	Freie Universität BerlinGermany	27.2	7.2
65	Brown UniversityUnited States	27.1	9.5
65	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom	27.1	7.2
67	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong	27.0	6.0
68	Universität de BarcelonaSpain	26.8	8.0
69	Fudan UniversityChina	26.7	2.8
70	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	26.6	8.8
71	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)France	25.7	8.0
72	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	25.2	8.9
73	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	25.1	8.2
74	University of North Carolina, Chapel HillUnited States	25.0	11.0
75	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	24.9	9.9
75	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)United States	24.9	7.5
75	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States	24.9	N/A
78	University of OsloNorway	24.5	6.8
79	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	24.4	9.1
79	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)United States	24.4	8.0
81	Trinity College DublinIreland	24.3	7.0
82	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & TechnologySouth Korea	24.2	8.4
82	McMaster UniversityCanada	24.2	9.4
82	University of DundeeUnited Kingdom	24.2	9.7
85	University of AdelaideAustralia	24.1	6.4
86	University of AlbertaCanada	23.9	7.5
86	Purdue UniversityUnited States	23.9	6.7
86	Eberhard Karls Universität TübingenGermany	23.9	7.7
89	Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea	23.8	3.8
90	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	23.6	7.2
91	Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenBelgium	23.3	9.0
92	New York University (NYU)United States	23.1	9.4
93	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	23.0	9.9
93	Tokyo University of Science (TUS)Japan	23.0	4.8
95	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom	22.9	10.2
96	University of MinnesotaUnited States	22.7	8.7
97	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)United Kingdom	22.6	7.6
98	Boston UniversityUnited States	22.5	10.5
98	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	22.5	3.6
100	Stockholm UniversitySweden	22.4	8.0
100	University of NewcastleAustralia	22.4	6.2