In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Medicine 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	Harvard University	United States	100.0	100.0	97.5	100.0	99.4
2	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.2	99.5	96.6	94.3	95.8
3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.8	99.8	97.1	91.7	95.5
4	5	Stanford University	United States	92.3	92.9	95.5	93.3	93.4
5	4	Johns Hopkins University	United States	92.3	75.5	95.9	99.3	93.3
6	7	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	88.8	86.4	95.2	93.5	91.3
7	6	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	United States	89.7	65.4	97.3	97.3	91.1
8	8	Yale University	United States	89.7	89.7	93.8	88.8	90.5
9	10	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	85.6	87.8	93.6	94.9	90.1
10	9	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	91.2	81.9	92.1	88.9	89.9
11	11=	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	87.6	86.3	94.5	87.7	89.2
12	13=	University of Toronto	Canada	83.4	81.2	93.9	96.7	89.1
13	15	Columbia University	United States	82.9	82.2	96.4	94.1	89.0
14	16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	86.6	92.2	99.4	80.2	88.8
15	11=	University of Pennsylvania	United States	82.1	78.4	95.5	96.5	88.7
16	13=	Duke University	United States	79.9	78.7	97.4	97.5	88.6
17	17	The University of Sydney	Australia	85.2	88.5	89.9	87.6	87.3
18	18	The University of Melbourne	Australia	85.5	89.7	89.5	85.8	87.0
19=	22=	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	78.1	73.9	96.0	93.0	85.9
19=	19	University of Washington	United States	78.5	70.6	94.7	95.1	85.9
21	24	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	81.2	83.3	92.4	86.8	85.6
22	21	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	88.3	93.3	87.2	75.5	85.3
23=	20	The University of Tokyo	Japan	88.2	92.3	85.6	76.8	85.1
23=	25	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	77.7	66.3	96.6	93.1	85.1
25	27	University of Michigan	United States	77.2	74.1	93.8	92.6	84.9
26	31	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	79.9	75.2	94.8	85.1	84.5
27	22=	McGill University	Canada	80.0	76.3	92.7	86.4	84.4
28	26	University of British Columbia	Canada	76.6	79.1	92.2	87.2	83.4
29	32	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	75.6	71.4	98.0	84.7	83.1
30	28	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	85.7	85.5	87.5	73.3	83.0
31	29	New York University (NYU)	United States	75.5	77.4	92.6	86.8	82.8
32	37=	University of Chicago	United States	76.5	70.3	94.3	86.1	82.7
33	33=	McMaster University	Canada	74.9	62.0	96.8	88.8	82.6
34=	30	Cornell University	United States	74.0	79.2	93.3	85.3	82.2
34=	33=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	75.1	63.3	94.9	88.3	82.2
34=	39=	Mayo Medical School	United States	85.7	54.9	96.4	73.3	82.2
34=	46=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	74.1	69.0	93.9	88.8	82.2
38	37=	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	72.4	79.1	91.9	89.2	82.1
39	36	Monash University	Australia	80.5	82.0	87.3	79.1	82.0
40	39=	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	77.1	71.8	90.8	84.0	81.7
41	35	Baylor College of Medicine	United States	77.2	58.0	94.0	85.3	81.5
42	43=	Northwestern University	United States	71.5	72.9	92.9	88.2	81.2
43	49	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	77.0	80.8	87.8	79.9	80.8
44=	41	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	82.3	88.5	84.2	71.0	80.6
44=	45	University of Zurich	Switzerland	73.2	71.6	92.2	84.5	80.6
46=	43=	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	76.8	87.5	86.8	77.4	80.5
46=	42	University of Pittsburgh	United States	74.5	48.3	92.6	90.9	80.5
48	48	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	78.4	78.2	86.8	77.3	80.2
49=	51-100	Boston University	United States	68.2	71.6	94.9	87.7	80.1
49=	46=	Kyoto University	Japan	80.8	85.3	85.0	71.9	80.1
49=	51-100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	75.8	77.2	89.1	79.0	80.1