Best Medical Schools: Research
Ranked in 2013 | Best Medical Schools: Research Rankings Methodology
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| Research rank | School name | Tuition | Total medical school enrollment | Additional data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #22 |
Emory University
Atlanta, GA |
$46,800 (full-time) | 564 |
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| #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 | |
| #21 |
New York University
New York, NY |
$44,910 (full-time) | 651 | |
| #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 | |
| #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 | |
| #15 |
University of California‒San Diego
La Jolla, CA |
$11,220 (in-state, full-time); $23,465 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 520 | |
| #14 |
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN |
$42,750 (full-time) | 444 | |
| #13 |
University of California‒Los Angeles (Geffen)
Los Angeles, CA |
$34,784 (in-state, full-time); $47,029 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 767 | |
| #12 |
University of Washington
Seattle, WA |
$28,040 (in-state, full-time); $56,970 (full-time)(out-of-state) | 908 | |
| #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 | |
| #7 |
Yale University
New Haven, CT |
$49,500 (full-time) | 397 | |
| #6 |
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO |
$52,020 (full-time) | 478 | |
| #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 | |
| #3 |
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD |
$44,100 (full-time) | 479 | |
| #2 |
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
$47,343 (full-time) | 461 | |
| #1 |
Harvard University
Boston, MA |
$49,875 (full-time) | 700 |














