The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for clinical and health subjects employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 100 universities for clinical, pre-clinical and health 2014-2015

Rank Institution Location Overall score
1 University of Oxford United Kingdom
92.3
2 Harvard University United States
92.0
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
87.3
4 Imperial College London United Kingdom
86.2
5 Stanford University United States
85.7
6 Columbia University United States
85.1
7 Johns Hopkins University United States
84.8
8 University College London (UCL) United Kingdom
84.4
9 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States
84.0
10 Yale University United States
83.6
11 King's College London United Kingdom
82.9
12 University of Washington United States
82.1
13
University of Toronto
Canada
81.5
13 University of Melbourne Australia
81.5
15 Karolinska Institute Sweden
80.7
16 Washington University in St Louis United States
80.5
17 Duke University United States
80.0
18 University of Michigan United States
79.7
18 University of Pennsylvania United States
79.7
20 McGill University Canada
78.7
21 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
78.3
22 University of Pittsburgh United States
75.6
23 University of Sydney Australia
75.4
24 University of California, Berkeley United States
75.0
25 Boston University United States
74.9
25 McMaster University Canada
74.9
27 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
73.7
28 University of Chicago United States
71.9
29 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany
71.8
30 Cornell University United States
71.4
31 Emory University United States
70.8
32
University of British Columbia
Canada
70.5
33 University of California, San Diego United States
69.9
34 Northwestern University United States
68.8
35 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands
68.7
36
The University of Tokyo
Japan
68.6
37 KU Leuven Belgium
68.5
38 University of Manchester United Kingdom
68.3
39 Universität Heidelberg Germany
67.2
40 Vanderbilt University United States
66.9
41 New York University (NYU) United States
66.0
42 University of Queensland Australia Australia
65.8
43 University of Minnesota United States
65.5
44
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
65.3
45
Maastricht University
Netherlands
64.5
46
Monash University
Australia
64.3
47 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
63.9
48 University of Cape Town South Africa
63.5
49 Medical University of Vienna Austria
63.4
49 Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom
63.4
51 Tufts University United States
63.2
52 University of Zürich Switzerland
62.7
53 Kyoto University Japan
62.4
54 University of New South Wales Australia
62.2
55 University of Massachusetts United States
61.2
56
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
60.7
57 University of Glasgow United Kingdom
60.3
58
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
60.2
59 Universität Basel Switzerland
59.4
60 University of Southern California United States
58.8
61 University of Bristol United Kingdom
58.6
61 Leiden University Netherlands
58.6
63 University of Iowa United States
58.5
64 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
58.4
65 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
57.5
66 University of Miami United States
57.4
67 University of Montreal Canada
57.3
68 University of Alberta Canada
56.9
69 Case Western Reserve University United States
56.6
70 Uppsala University Sweden
56.5
71 University of Copenhagen Denmark
56.4
72 Ohio State University United States
55.8
73 University of Florida United States
55.7
74 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
55.1
75 Utrecht University Netherlands
54.7
76 University of Barcelona Spain
54.5
77 University of Auckland New Zealand
54.4
78 University of California, Davis United States
53.9
79 University of São Paulo Brazil
53.6
80 University of Cincinnati United States
53.1
81
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
52.8
81 Université Pierre et Marie Curie France
52.8
83 University of Sheffield United Kingdom
52.6
84 University of Rochester United States
52.5
85 University of Gothenburg Sweden
52.4
86 Lund University Sweden
52.3
87 Yonsei University Republic of Korea
52.0
88 University of Birmingham United Kingdom
51.7
89 University of Otago New Zealand
51.6
90
University of Groningen
Netherlands
51.5
90 University of Liverpool United Kingdom
51.5
90
Radboud University
Netherlands
51.5
93 Ghent University Belgium
51.4
93 University of Utah United States
51.4
95 University of Adelaide Australia
51.3
96 University of Milan Italy
51.2
96 University of Western Australia Australia
51.2
98 University of Leeds United Kingdom
51.0
98 University of Nottingham United Kingdom
51.0
100 University of Bologna Italy
50.5

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters.

The full list of Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health subjects used to create this ranking is:

  • Allergy
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiovascular System & Cardiology
  • Dentistry & Oral Surgery
  • Dermatology
  • Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Geriatrics & Gerontology
  • Health Care Sciences & Services
  • Haematology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Legal Medicine
  • Medical Ethics
  • Medical Informatics
  • Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Medicine, General & Internal
  • Neurosciences & Neurology
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Oncology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Otorhinolaryngology
  • Pathology
  • Paediatrics
  • Pharmacology & Pharmacy
  • Psychiatry
  • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • Rehabilitation
  • Respiratory System
  • Rheumatology
  • Sport Sciences
  • Surgery
  • Toxicology
  • Transplantation
  • Tropical Medicine
  • Urology & Nephrology
  • Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health - Other topics