Top 10 Medical Schools

Medical school finder: see how your MCAT scores and GPA would fare at ranked medical schools across the country.

The medical school rankings are always a point of debate among medical schools and medical students. No single method for determining these rankings works perfectly, and every institution feels it should be ranked higher. Having two lists, research and primary care, deals with this problem a little, but also points out where weaknesses reside.

According the US News' ranking of the top graduate schools here are:

Top 10 medical schools (research)

1. Harvard University
2. Johns Hopkins University
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Washington University in St. Louis     
5. University of California San Francisco
6. University of Washington
7. Stanford University
8. Duke University
9. Yale University
10. Baylor College of Medicine (TX)
      Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY)

Top 10 medical schools (primary care)

1. University of Washington
2. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
3. University of Colorad-Denver and Health Sciences Center
4. Oregon Health and Science University
5. Mich. State U. Coll. of Osteopathic Medicine
6. East Carolina University (Brody, NC)
7. University of Vermont
8. University of California - San Francisco
9. University of Wisconsin Madison
10. University of Nebraska College of Medicine.