Global Medicine Rankings 2026
Snapshot 2026-09-16. QS Subject 2026 Medicine: Harvard 96.7 No. 1, Oxford 93.1, Stanford 89.7. THE Medical and Health: Oxford 94.7. No blended score.
Snapshot 2026-09-16. The main table is QS Subject 2026 Medicine, published 25 March 2026 (847 universities). Harvard is first at 96.7, Oxford 93.1, Stanford 89.7. Whole-university ranks sit in Global Universities 2026. Hospitals: China hospitals 2026.
QS Subject 2026 Medicine
Harvard scores 100 on four of five indicators; citations per paper are 83.3. Johns Hopkins is fourth at 88.7, Cambridge fifth at 88.5, UCL sixth at 87.1. Ties follow the site: three schools share 26 at 78.7, two share 29 at 78. The numbers are copied from the live QS page and are not blended with THE.
| QS | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 96.7 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 93.1 |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States | 89.7 |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 88.7 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.5 |
| 6 | UCL | United Kingdom | 87.1 |
| 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 86.9 |
| 8 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 86.6 |
| 9 | Yale University | United States | 85.8 |
| 10 | Karolinska Institutet | Sweden | 85.7 |
| 11 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 84.8 |
| 12 | University of Toronto | Canada | 84.7 |
| 13 | UCLA | United States | 84.3 |
| 14 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 83 |
| 15 | Columbia University | United States | 82.7 |
| 16 | MIT | United States | 82.3 |
| 17 | NUS | Singapore | 82.2 |
| 18 | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany | 81.5 |
| 19 | Duke University | United States | 81.4 |
| 20 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 81.3 |
| 21 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | 81 |
| 22 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 80.7 |
| 23 | McGill University | Canada | 79.6 |
| 24 | UC San Diego | United States | 79.5 |
| 25 | University of Washington | United States | 79.3 |
| =26 | Cornell University | United States | 78.7 |
| =26 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 78.7 |
| =26 | University of Sydney | Australia | 78.7 |
| =29 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 78 |
| =29 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States | 78 |
THE 2026 Medical and Health
THE’s line covers medicine, dentistry, nursing and other health fields. The 2026 table scores 1,230 universities in 102 countries and territories. Oxford leads at 94.7, Cambridge 93.5, Harvard third at 91.4. Johns Hopkins and Stanford share fifth at 89.7. Berkeley enters the top 10 at 86.1. The 1 July 2026 student page matches the official table.
| THE | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 英国 | 94.7 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 英国 | 93.5 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 美国 | 91.4 |
| 4 | Imperial College London | 英国 | 91.3 |
| =5 | Johns Hopkins University | 美国 | 89.7 |
| =5 | Stanford University | 美国 | 89.7 |
| 7 | Yale University | 美国 | 89.3 |
| 8 | UCL | 英国 | 88.4 |
| 9 | University of Toronto | 加拿大 | 88.2 |
| 10 | UC Berkeley | 美国 | 86.1 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania | 美国 | 86.0 |
| 12 | Karolinska Institute | 瑞典 | 85.5 |
| 13 | NUS | 新加坡 | 85.4 |
| 14 | UCLA | 美国 | 85.2 |
| =15 | King's College London | 英国 | 84.7 |
| =15 | Tsinghua University | 中国内地 | 84.7 |
Chinese mainland and Hong Kong on THE
Tsinghua is 84.7, tied for 15th with King’s College London. HKU is 18th, Peking University 24th, CUHK 26th. None of those names sit in the QS Medicine top 30 cut used here.
| THE | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| =15 | Tsinghua University | 中国内地 | 84.7 |
| 18 | University of Hong Kong | 中国香港 | 83.3 |
| 24 | Peking University | 中国内地 | 80.7 |
| 26 | CUHK | 中国香港 | 79.5 |
QS 2026 Life Sciences and Medicine
The broad faculty list is wider than the Medicine subject. Harvard and Oxford still lead. Johns Hopkins is third, Stanford fourth. UCL, UCSF and Imperial share sixth. The results note prints ranks, not overall scores.
| QS | University | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 美国 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 英国 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 美国 |
| 4 | Stanford University | 美国 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | 英国 |
| =6 | UCL | 英国 |
| =6 | UCSF | 美国 |
| =6 | Imperial College London | 英国 |
| 9 | King's College London | 英国 |
| 10 | Yale University | 美国 |
How this list is ranked
Snapshot 2026-09-16. The main table is QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 · Medicine, published 25 March 2026 (847 universities). Whole-university tables sit in Global Universities 2026. Chinese undergraduate tables: China Universities 2026. MBA: Global MBA 2026. Hospitals: China hospitals 2026. THE uses Medical and Health 2026. The broad QS table copies the subject-results note. US News 2026 Best Medical Schools: Research is now a US-only tier list; Harvard Medical School stopped submitting, so no numbers are copied. Names: docs/glossaries/med-schools-2026-glossary.md.
| Source | Snapshot | Basis | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS Subject 2026 Medicine | Published 2026-03-25; rechecked 2026-09-16 | 847 universities; Harvard 96.7; four of five indicators at 100, citations per paper 83.3 | Primary |
| THE Medical and Health 2026 | Released Jan 2026; student page 2026-07-01 | 1,230 universities / 102 territories; Oxford 94.7; different ruler from QS | Support |
| QS Subject 2026 results note | 2026-03-25 | Life Sciences & Medicine broad top 10; ranks only | Support |
| US News Best Medical Schools: Research 2026 | 2026-09-16 | US-only tiers; Harvard withdrew; no numeric table | Note |
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