Top 100 biomedicine universities
Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement
| 2005 rank |
2004 rank |
Institution | Country | Peer score |
Citations per paper |
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | US | 100 | 28.5 |
| 2 | 2 | Cambridge University | UK | 95.8 | 23 |
| 3 | 3 | Oxford University | UK | 84.3 | 23 |
| 4 | 7 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 83.8 | 16.3 |
| 5 | 5 | Stanford University | US | 81 | 27.2 |
| 6 | 4 | Imperial College London | UK | 80.9 | 14.2 |
| 7 | 6 | Johns Hopkins University | US | 77.7 | 23.6 |
| 8 | 11 | Beijing University | China | 69.5 | - |
| 9 | 9 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 69.2 | 26.5 |
| 10 | 14 | Melbourne University | Australia | 67.7 | 12 |
| 11 | 8 | Yale University | US | 63.9 | 24.7 |
| 12 | 13 | Tokyo University | Japan | 61.5 | 16 |
| 13 | 12 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 60.6 | 40.9 |
| 14 | 10 | University of California, San Diego | US | 59.1 | 25.9 |
| 15 | 25 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 58.5 | - |
| 16 | 21 | Edinburgh University | UK | 57.5 | 17.9 |
| 17 | 16 | Heidelberg University | Germany | 56 | 14.1 |
| 18 | 15 | Sydney University | Australia | 55.1 | - |
| 19 | 18 | University of California, San Francisco | US | 54.9 | 25.5 |
| 20 | 20 | University of Toronto | Canada | 54.4 | 17 |
| 21 | 34 | Australian National University | Australia | 53.4 | - |
| 22 | 19 | University College London | UK | 53.2 | 18.6 |
| 23 | 17 | Duke University | US | 52.1 | 21.8 |
| 24 | 27 | McGill University | Canada | 51.7 | 18.9 |
| 25 | 23 | Columbia University | US | 50.6 | 22.2 |
| 26 | 24 | Cornell University | US | 50.5 | 20.8 |
| 27 | 28 | Kyoto University | Japan | 50.1 | 16.7 |
| 28 | 37 | Monash University | Australia | 48.8 | 12.1 |
| 29= | 30 | Kings College London | UK | 45 | 13.6 |
| 29= | 45 | Queensland University | Australia | 45 | - |
| 31 | 62 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 44.6 | 15.9 |
| 32 | 22 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 44.2 | 19.4 |
| 33 | 36 | Auckland University | New Zealand | 43.9 | - |
| 34 | - | York University | UK | 43.6 | - |
| 35 | 49 | Fudan University | China | 43 | - |
| 36 | 26 | Princeton University | US | 42.7 | - |
| 37 | 48 | Hong Kong University | Hong Kong | 42.1 | - |
| 38 | 35 | California Institute of Technology | US | 41.5 | - |
| 39 | 29 | Helsinki University | Finland | 40.8 | 15.7 |
| 40 | 31 | Vienna University | Austria | 40.5 | - |
| 41 | 68 | University of New South Wales | Australia | 40.4 | - |
| 42 | - | Baylor College of Medicine | US | 39.6 | 21.8 |
| 43 | 40 | Boston University | US | 38.7 | 18.8 |
| 44 | 38 | Munich University | Germany | 37.8 | 13.2 |
| 45 | 46 | University of Michigan | US | 37.7 | 19.5 |
| 46 | 32 | Humboldt University, Berlin | Germany | 37.5 | 12.4 |
| 47 | - | Queensland University of Technol | Australia | 37.2 | - |
| 48= | 41 | Washington University | US | 36.5 | 21.8 |
| 48= | 56 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 36.5 | - |
| 50= | 61 | Otago University | New Zealand | 36.2 | - |
| 50= | 89 | Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Technol | Hong Kong | 36.2 | - |
| 52 | 42 | University of Chicago | US | 35.9 | 23 |
| 53= | 33 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 34.8 | - |
| 53= | - | Macquarie University | Australia | 34.8 | - |
| 55 | 51 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 34.7 | 19.1 |
| 56 | 43 | Univ Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I | France | 34.6 | - |
| 57 | 81 | Adelaide University | Australia | 34.3 | - |
| 58 | 90 | University of Pennsylvania | US | 33.8 | 19.3 |
| 59 | 38 | Frankfurt University | Germany | 33.6 | 13.3 |
| 60 | 74 | New York University | US | 33.5 | 19.3 |
| 61 | 47 | Free University Berlin | Germany | 33.3 | 13.4 |
| 62 | - | Indian Institutes of Technology | India | 33.2 | - |
| 63 | - | Newcastle University | Australia | 32.9 | - |
| 64 | 55 | Washington University, St Louis | US | 32.6 | 25.3 |
| 65 | 43 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France | 32.5 | - |
| 66= | 80 | Manchester University and Umist | UK | 31.9 | 14.6 |
| 66= | - | Seoul National University | South Korea | 31.9 | - |
| 68= | 50 | Florence University | Italy | 31.4 | - |
| 68= | 54 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 31.4 | 12.7 |
| 70 | - | Uppsala University | Sweden | 31.3 | 14.1 |
| 71= | 63 | Amsterdam University | Netherlands | 31.2 | 15.8 |
| 71= | 57 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 31.2 | 14.9 |
| 73 | 52 | Göttingen University | Germany | 31 | 12.2 |
| 74 | 67 | São Paulo University | Brazil | 30.9 | - |
| 75 | 81 | Tsing Hua University | China | 30.4 | - |
| 76 | 53 | South Australia University | Australia | 30.3 | - |
| 77 | - | Zurich University | Switzerland | 30.1 | 15.9 |
| 78= | 84 | Glasgow University | UK | 30 | 15.8 |
| 78= | - | Copenhagen University | Denmark | 30 | 13.5 |
| 80 | 93 | Penn State University | US | 29.9 | 16.4 |
| 81 | 57 | Innsbruck University | Austria | 29.8 | - |
| 82= | 60 | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand | 29.2 | - |
| 82= | - | Malaya University | Malaysia | 29.2 | - |
| 82= | 90 | Osaka University | Japan | 29.2 | 17.1 |
| 82= | 96 | Western Australia University | Australia | 29.2 | - |
| 86= | 93 | Nanjing University | China | 29 | - |
| 86= | - | La Trobe University | Australia | 29 | - |
| 86= | - | University of Technology, Sydney | Australia | 29 | - |
| 89 | 83 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 28.9 | - |
| 90= | 76 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 28.8 | - |
| 90= | - | Catholic University Leuven (Flemish) | Belgium | 28.8 | 15.2 |
| 92= | - | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 28.7 | - |
| 92= | - | University of Wisconsin-Madison | US | 28.7 | 17.7 |
| 94 | 64 | Vanderbilt University | US | 28.6 | 21.2 |
| 95 | 59 | University of California, Davis | US | 28.4 | 14.3 |
| 96 | 90 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 27.7 | - |
| 97 | 100 | Southern California University | US | 27.6 | 18 |
| 98= | - | Purdue University | US | 27.5 | - |
| 98= | 96 | Lund University | Sweden | 27.5 | 13.7 |
| 100 | 74 | Tübingen-Reutlingen University | Germany | 27.4 | 12.3 |