World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities
Posted October 20, 2009
U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, identified these to be world's top universities in 2009.
| Rank | Subject Score | Citations per Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University United States | 100.0 | 11.6 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge United Kingdom | 90.6 | 9.6 |
| 3 | University of Oxford United Kingdom | 84.1 | 9.4 |
| 4 | Stanford University United States | 79.9 | 10.0 |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley United States | 79.2 | 9.5 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins University United States | 76.2 | 9.3 |
| 7 | University of Tokyo Japan | 75.2 | 6.4 |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States | 71.2 | 13.8 |
| 9 | Yale University United States | 67.6 | 9.3 |
| 10 | McGill University Canada | 62.3 | 7.7 |
| 11 | University of Toronto Canada | 61.8 | 7.2 |
| 12 | University of California, San Diego United States | 61.7 | 10.2 |
| 13 | Kyoto University Japan | 61.5 | 6.5 |
| 13 | University of Melbourne Australia | 61.5 | 6.3 |
| 15 | University of Sydney Australia | 60.2 | 5.3 |
| 16 | University of British Columbia Canada | 60.1 | 6.8 |
| 17 | Imperial College London United Kingdom | 59.1 | 8.1 |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States | 58.8 | 9.1 |
| 19 | Peking University China | 57.6 | 3.2 |
| 20 | National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore | 57.4 | 5.4 |
| 21 | Australian National University Australia | 55.4 | 5.9 |
| 22 | UCL (University College London) United Kingdom | 55.0 | 7.8 |
| 23 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States | 53.7 | 12.5 |
| 24 | Seoul National University South Korea |
53.3 | 4.5 |
| 25 | Monash University Australia | 53.2 | 5.7 |
| 26 | Cornell University United States | 49.6 | 7.8 |
| 27 | Princeton University United States | 48.6 | 10.2 |
| 28 | University of Queensland Australia | 47.2 | 5.7 |
| 29 | Columbia University United States | 46.6 | 9.1 |
| 29 | Karolinska Institute Sweden | 46.6 | 7.6 |
| 31 | Duke University United States | 45.8 | 9.4 |
| 32 | University of Hong Kong Hong Kong | 45.3 | 6.3 |
| 33 | University of Chicago United States | 45.1 | 8.8 |
| 34 | University of Edinburgh United Kingdom | 44.5 | 7.6 |
| 35 | University of Michigan United States | 44.1 | 8.5 |
| 36 | Osaka University Japan | 43.9 | 7.4 |
| 37 | King's College London United Kingdom | 42.7 | 6.7 |
| 38 | University of California, Davis United States | 41.3 | 6.4 |
| 39 | University of Pennsylvania United States | 40.7 | 8.8 |
| 40 | The University of Auckland New Zealand | 39.8 | 5.6 |
| 41 | Tsinghua University China | 39.7 | 2.8 |
| 42 | Heidelberg University Germany | 39.6 | 7.0 |
| 43 | University of New South Wales Australia | 39.1 | 5.8 |
| 44 | University of Washington United States | 39.0 | 9.2 |
| 45 | National Taiwan University Taiwan | 37.5 | 4.2 |
| 45 | Washington University in St. Louis United States | 37.5 | 9.3 |
| 47 | Uppsala University Sweden | 36.9 | 7.0 |
| 48 | Boston University United States | 36.3 | 8.7 |
| 49 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland | 35.9 | 8.1 |
| 50 | University of Wisconsin-Madison United States | 35.8 | 7.5 |
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