January 25, 2020

Best Medical Schools in the USA

United States Medical School Ranking List: Harvard Medical School located in Boston assumes the top spot according to the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Medical Schools” for research for 2019.

The American News ranking for the Best and top Medical Schools for Research and Primary Care is among the annual lists of the highest higher education institutions in 2019, highlighting the best universities for many graduate programs, including work, science, and technology, education, law, engineering, nursing, and medicine. This year’s publication also published new ranks for graduate programs in other popular disciplines, including biological sciences, chemistry, public affairs, social work, and criminology.

Researchers stressed that this year’s census focused on the perceived medical school’s reputation by 10 percentage points and added four new factors to measure the amount in nonfederal and non-National Institutes of Health research grant funding institutions received.

Here are the top 10 medical schools for research, including ties, as ranked by U.S. News

1. Harvard Medical School
2. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore)
3. NYU School of Medicine (New York City)
4. Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine
5. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
6. Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Rochester, Minn.)
7. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
8. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles)
9. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
10. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)

Here are the top 10 medical schools for primary care, including ties, as ranked by U.S. News

1. UNC School of Medicine (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
2. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
3. UW School of Medicine (Seattle)
4. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles)
5. Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
6. OHSU School of Medicine (Portland, Ore.)
7. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
8. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
9. University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora)
10. UC Davis School of Medicine (Sacramento, Calif.)
11. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis