Best Medical Schools: Research
Ranked in 2013 | Best Medical Schools: Research Rankings Methodology
A medical career starts with finding the program that best fits your needs. With U.S. News's rankings of the top medical schools for research, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size, and test scores.
| Research rank | School name | Tuition | Total medical school enrollment |
MCAT composite score
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Average undergraduate GPA
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Acceptance rate
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Full-time faculty-student ratio
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NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions)
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NIH research grant funds per faculty member (in thousands)
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Peer assessment score (out of 5)
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Residency directors assessment score (out of 5)
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| #1 |
Harvard University
Boston, MA |
$49,875 (full-time) | 700 | ||||||||
| #2 |
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
$47,343 (full-time) | 461 | ||||||||
| #3 |
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD |
$44,100 (full-time) | 479 | ||||||||
| #4 |
University of California–San Francisco
San Francisco, CA |
$31,134 (in-state, full-time); $43,379 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 648 | ||||||||
| #4 |
University of Pennsylvania (Perelman)
Philadelphia, PA |
$47,090 (full-time) | 646 | ||||||||
| #6 |
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO |
$52,020 (full-time) | 478 | ||||||||
| #7 |
Yale University
New Haven, CT |
$49,500 (full-time) | 397 | ||||||||
| #8 |
Columbia University
New York, NY |
$49,504 (full-time) | 662 | ||||||||
| #8 |
Duke University
Durham, NC |
$48,065 (full-time) | 425 | ||||||||
| #8 |
University of Chicago (Pritzker)
Chicago, IL |
$44,075 (full-time) | 377 | ||||||||
| #8 |
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI |
$29,352 (in-state, full-time); $46,944 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 679 | ||||||||
| #12 |
University of Washington
Seattle, WA |
$28,040 (in-state, full-time); $56,970 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 908 | ||||||||
| #13 |
University of California–Los Angeles (Geffen)
Los Angeles, CA |
$34,784 (in-state, full-time); $47,029 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 767 | ||||||||
| #14 |
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN |
$42,750 (full-time) | 444 | ||||||||
| #15 |
University of California–San Diego
La Jolla, CA |
$11,220 (in-state, full-time); $23,465 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 520 | ||||||||
| #16 |
Cornell University (Weill)
New York, NY |
$47,150 (full-time) | 409 | ||||||||
| #16 |
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA |
$44,726 (in-state, full-time); $45,846 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 591 | ||||||||
| #18 |
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX |
$19,650 (full-time) | 751 | ||||||||
| #18 |
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY |
$41,238 (full-time) | 568 | ||||||||
| #18 |
Northwestern University (Feinberg)
Chicago, IL |
$48,339 (full-time) | 712 | ||||||||
| #21 |
New York University
New York, NY |
$44,910 (full-time) | 651 | ||||||||
| #22 |
Emory University
Atlanta, GA |
$46,800 (full-time) | 564 | ||||||||
| #22 |
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC |
$16,028 (in-state, full-time); $41,786 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 782 | ||||||||
| #22 |
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX |
$15,801 (in-state, full-time); $28,901 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 939 | ||||||||
| #25 |
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH |
$51,450 (full-time) | 846 |
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