此次排名通过对超过1900所大学的详细调查，并分析了这些学校包括学术声誉(全职教授人数、诺贝尔奖或其他大奖获得者、论文学术专著等)、学术保持率(回校率和毕业率)、招生选拔、师资资源、经费资源(研究经费支持)、学生就业率和薪资、校友捐赠率、校园犯罪率、联邦贷款违约率等各项数据，从而推出的最新排名。
2017年USNews美国大学研究生院排名——最佳医学院排名
| Research rank | School name | Median MCAT total score | Median undergraduate GPA |
| 1 | Harvard University | 36 | 3.92 |
| Boston, MA | |||
| 2 | Stanford University | 35 | 3.85 |
| Stanford, CA | |||
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 36 | 3.90 |
| Baltimore, MD | |||
| 3 | University of California—San Francisco | 34 | 3.75 |
| San Francisco, CA | |||
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania (Perelman) | 38 | 3.87 |
| Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 6 | Washington University in St. Louis | 38 | 3.88 |
| St. Louis, MO | |||
| 7 | Columbia University | 36 | 3.82 |
| New York, NY | |||
| 8 | Duke University | 36 | 3.80 |
| Durham, NC | |||
| 8 | University of Washington | 31 | 3.73 |
| Seattle, WA | |||
| 8 | Yale University | 36 | 3.87 |
| New Haven, CT | |||
| 11 | New York University | 36 | 3.87 |
| New York, NY | |||
| 11 | University of Chicago (Pritzker) | 37 | 3.87 |
| Chicago, IL | |||
| 11 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor | 35 | 3.78 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | |||
| 14 | University of California—Los Angeles (Geffen) | 35 | 3.82 |
| Los Angeles, CA | |||
| 15 | Vanderbilt University | 37 | 3.88 |
| Nashville, TN | |||
| 16 | University of Pittsburgh | 36 | 3.81 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| 17 | Northwestern University (Feinberg) | 36 | 3.88 |
| Chicago, IL | |||
| 18 | Cornell University (Weill)? | 36 | 3.84 |
| New York, NY | |||
| 18 | University of California—San Diego | 34? | 3.77 |
| La Jolla, CA | |||
| 20 | Baylor College of Medicine | 35 | 3.86 |
| Houston, TX |
