Top 5 World Universities to Study Medicine

If you are looking to study medicine at University – this will be a great resource for you. Be it from a very expensive University to one not attended by a great amount of people, here is a list of those top 5 Universities in which to study Medicine.

No.1: Harvard University

The oldest and most prestigious of all the US universities, Harvard is considered to have the world’s best medical school. Scoring a faultless 100 per cent for its academic, employer and research reputation, it leads its closest rival by 17 points.

No.2: University of Cambridge

Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine is considered the second best medical faculty in the world according to QS World University Rankings 2011/12. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick famously deduced the structure of DNA at Cambridge, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962.

No.3: University of Oxford

Oxford University takes third spot with a score of 77.7 points. In spite of the UK tuition fee hikes, a medicine degree at Oxford still costs almost three times less than it would at the likes of Harvard.

No.4: Stanford University

Stanford is the oldest continuously running medical school in the western United States, with some of the most expensive fees. Students are charged up to £27,000 per annum. In 1968 it was responsible for the first adult human heart transplant in the US.

No.5: Johns Hopkins University

Since its establishment in 1893, John Hopkins school of medicine has been considered the model on which all other US medical schools are built. In the television series House, the fictional anti-hero, Dr Gregory House, played by English actor Hugh Laurie, attended Johns Hopkins University but was expelled for cheating.