Hey everybody, I'm Gus with Crimson Education, and today we're gonna be talking about the Top 10 Medical Schools in the world. Just a quick disclaimer before we get started.
These rankings are based off of the QS rankings which, are kind of a mixed of different factors including, employer reputation, scholarship productivity, and H index, so by no means are these the definitive, or only ways to rank medical schools.
Academic consultation with one of our academic experts, but lets get started with our number 10 school on our list.
It's tied for number nine. It is the University College London located in London in the UK.
University College London, or UCL has been training doctors and scientists in medicine since 1834. Only schools in the US undergraduates can begin studying medicine at UCL from the very beginning. It's a six year program to become a doctor if you study starting as an undergrad at UCL.
UCL also offers plenty of Postgraduate medicine education opportunities for Post-grad students looking to enter the medicine field.
The school of medicine is one of six divisions within the faculty of medicine at UCL. UCL Medical School Alumni often go on to become high profile figures within the medical community,
so for example, the current Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Chair of the General Medical Council are Alumni of UCL.
Number nine on our list is sure to get some haters because, they don't even have a medical school. It is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT.
Why are they on this list? Is because, they are aligned with Harvard Medical School through the Health Scientist and Technology Program.
This prestigious program is combined MD-PhD Program for students interested in essentially, they get together Health Science and Technology not just through a medical degree, but also through an intensive research degree, or a PhD.
Because of the programs emphasis on research, most of the students who pursue this program wind up pursuing a career in Biomedical Research as oppose to being a practicing Physician.
Number eight on our list brings us to New Haven, Connecticut with Yale University School of Medicine.
The Yale School of Medicine Admissions Committee specifically notes that students applying to their program do not need to have majored in a Pre-Med, or a Biology Track, but as long as they complete the prerequisite requirements, students from all backgrounds are welcome to apply, and join the program.
Yale University has several graduate schools, and they take advantage of this in their medical school training, by offering several joint degree programs including an MD/JD, and MD/MBA, and MD,MDiv.
That last one is for Medical and Divinity School if you don't know. In addition, about 20% of students at the Yale School of Medicine pursue a joint MD-PhD as that is also an option.
One famous Alum of the Yale School of Medicine is Dr. Aaron Beck a famous Psychiatrist who developed Cognitive Therapy.
Number seven on our list takes us to the west coast of the United States to UCLA, or the University of California Los Angeles.
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is number four in the US, and number seven in the world, and a lot of the training that UCLA Medical School candidates receive is at the UCLA Medical Center which, has specialties in virtually every area of medicine.
UCLA Medical Center is the primary teaching hospital for both the UCLA Medical School, and the UCLA Nursing Program.
UCLA like Yale has a lot of graduate programs, and students at the medical school have the ability to pursue joint degrees in MD-PhD, MD/MBA, and an MD in Masters of Public Affairs.
Number six on our list is the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
The Karolinska Institute is a huge scientific endeavor in Sweden. It is responsible for 40% of all medical research within Sweden, and it's free for students in the EU, so if you're from the EU, this could be a good option for you.
I just wanna emphasis that if you don't speak Swedish, you really shouldn't be going here. Like don't try to fake it. Just like find another school. There are many other medical schools. It's exactly what our admissions experts would tell you.
Number five on out list brings us to Baltimore, Maryland with Johns Hopkins University.
After a lot of requests from you our YouTube audience, we went to Johns Hopkins very recently. In fact, you can find our big QS videos here, and our day in the life video here, so John Hopkins has an extremely competitive medical school at approximately 3.9% admission.
However, Johns Hopkins notes on their website that competitive atmosphere disappears once students arrive on campus. Every class is about 120 students in the medical school, and it's really designed to be a collaborative environment, rather than competitive.
Number four on our list brings us to Palo Alto, California with Stanford University School of Medicine.
Stanford Medical School is fantastic for a number of reasons. One of which is that it offers a wide variety of dual degree programs including of course an MD-PhD Program for students interested in getting medical training as well as research experience.
In addition, Stanford is located within Silicon Valley giving students great access to really a whole bunch of ways you can apply medicine to technology, and vice versa. Additionally, it's a rather small program.
There's about 90 to a 100 students per class, or in each cohort, and Stanford isn't really located within a big city, so though a little bit more of an intimate program than others.
Number three on our list brings us to Cambridge University in the UK where medicine has been taught since 1540.
If you are old enough to remember that, tell us who your doctor is because, you are a miracle.
Like many UK schools you can start studying medicine at the undergraduate level at Cambridge graduating as a doctor within six years, which is something you can not really do unless, you are like some kind of amazing person in the US.
You know what? I'm just gonna come out and say it. You can't do it in the US. In addition to the medical school, Cambridge University has a long history of excelling in the Biomedical Sciences. DNA was discovered there. I feel like that kind of stands on its own.
Number two on our list brings us to Cambridge's rival Oxford University also in the UK.
Like Cambridge, Oxford offers opportunities for undergraduates to start studying to become doctors when they arrive on campus.
Another thing that you can't do in the US, but Oxford also offers an accelerated program for students who all ready have pursued an undergraduate degree, and are ready for advanced graduate training.
Graduates from Oxford's Medical Programs go on to pursue careers in Academia, and Research, and Private Practice, and really anything else you can imagine doing with any kind of medical training, and number one on our list brings us to Harvard Medical School.
Harvard Medical School is widely regarded by basically, everyone as the best medical school, and medical research school in the world.
Not only does it have some of the best faculty in the world. It also has some of the best teaching hospitals of anywhere including, Mass General Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital.
They have a lot of great hospitals. In addition, we have filmed several Harvard Medical School students. You can click here to watch a video with Julia Peng. She is getting not only her MD, but also her MBA as part of a joint program, and you can also check out Bush Chang.
Another Harvard Medical School student. Maybe you will be our third Harvard Medical School video subject. Harvard Medical School has produced a huge number of notable Alumni including, Dr. Harvey Cushing.
He was a pioneer of brain surgery, and discover of Cushing's Disease, and Dr. Jill Stein who is not only an American Physician, but also political candidate of the Green Party.
Okay, and there you have it. QS's Top 10 medical schools in the world. Again, these are not the only ways that you can rank medical schools.
