Best Medical Schools: Research

Ranked in 2013 | Best Medical Schools: Research Rankings Methodology

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#1 Harvard University

Boston, MA

$49,875 (full-time) 700

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#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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