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- 119 institutions
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the 2019 Nature Index ranked University of California San Diego ninth among the top 200 institutions in biomedical sciences worldwide
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According to the latest Nature Index, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is one of the leading universities in the natural and life sciences.
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Zhejiang University (ZJU) has been ranked first among academic institutions worldwide in the Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings
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Recorded placements 119
Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.
| Rank | Institution | Claim |
|---|---|---|
| =1 | Harvard University | 1st in the world for biological sciences |
| =2 | Zhejiang University | 2nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =3 | Stanford University | 3rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =5 | Peking University | 5th in the world for biological sciences |
| =6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 6th in the world for biological sciences |
| =7 | Fudan University | 7th in the world for biological sciences |
| =8 | Yale University | 8th in the world for biological sciences |
| =9 | University of Oxford | 9th in the world for biological sciences |
| =10 | Tsinghua University | 10th in the world for biological sciences |
| =11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11th in the world for biological sciences |
| =13 | University of Toronto | 13th in the world for biological sciences |
| =15 | University of Pennsylvania | 15th in the world for biological sciences |
| =16 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 16th in the world for biological sciences |
| =17 | Cornell University | 17th in the world for biological sciences |
| =18 | Johns Hopkins University | 18th in the world for biological sciences |
| =19 | University of Washington | 19th in the world for biological sciences |
| =20 | University of California, San Diego | 20th in the world for biological sciences |
| =21 | University of Cambridge | 21st in the world for biological sciences |
| =22 | Columbia University | 22nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =23 | University of California, Los Angeles | 23rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =24 | University of California, Berkeley | 24th in the world for biological sciences |
| =27 | University of Chicago | 27th in the world for biological sciences |
| =29 | University of Tokyo | 29th in the world for biological sciences |
| =30 | University of California, San Francisco | 30th in the world for biological sciences |
| =32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 32nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =34 | ETH Zurich | 34th in the world for biological sciences |
| =35 | Princeton University | 35th in the world for biological sciences |
| =37 | Duke University | 37th in the world for biological sciences |
| =38 | National University of Singapore | 38th in the world for biological sciences |
| =41 | McGill University | 41st in the world for biological sciences |
| =43 | University of British Columbia | 43rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =44 | University of Copenhagen | 44th in the world for biological sciences |
| =45 | University of Texas at Austin | 45th in the world for biological sciences |
| =47 | University of Science and Technology of China | 47th in the world for biological sciences |
| =48 | Kyoto University | 48th in the world for biological sciences |
| =49 | Northwestern University | 49th in the world for biological sciences |
| =52 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 52nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =53 | Vanderbilt University | 53rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =54 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 54th in the world for biological sciences |
| =55 | University of Queensland | 55th in the world for biological sciences |
| =56 | University of Edinburgh | 56th in the world for biological sciences |
| =57 | New York University | 57th in the world for biological sciences |
| =59 | University College London | 59th in the world for biological sciences |
| =62 | University of Minnesota | 62nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =63 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | 63rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =66 | Imperial College London | 66th in the world for biological sciences |
| =69 | University of Southern California | 69th in the world for biological sciences |
| =70 | Karolinska Institute | 70th in the world for biological sciences |
| =74 | California Institute of Technology | 74th in the world for biological sciences |
| =77 | University of Bristol | 77th in the world for biological sciences |
| =80 | University of Pittsburgh | 80th in the world for biological sciences |
| =82 | Seoul National University | 82nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =85 | Pennsylvania State University | 85th in the world for biological sciences |
| =86 | Monash University | 86th in the world for biological sciences |
| =89 | Technical University of Munich | 89th in the world for biological sciences |
| =90 | University of Zurich | 90th in the world for biological sciences |
| =91 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 91st in the world for biological sciences |
| =93 | Ohio State University | 93rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =95 | Utrecht University | 95th in the world for biological sciences |
| =100 | Osaka University | 100th in the world for biological sciences |
| =107 | EPFL | 107th in the world for biological sciences |
| =109 | KU Leuven | 109th in the world for biological sciences |
| =110 | University of Vienna | 110th in the world for biological sciences |
| =111 | Purdue University | 111th in the world for biological sciences |
| =112 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 112th in the world for biological sciences |
| =113 | University of Hong Kong | 113th in the world for biological sciences |
| =114 | University of Alberta | 114th in the world for biological sciences |
| =115 | Tel Aviv University | 115th in the world for biological sciences |
| =119 | University of Sydney | 119th in the world for biological sciences |
| =120 | Lund University | 120th in the world for biological sciences |
| =126 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 126th in the world for biological sciences |
| =128 | Heidelberg University | 128th in the world for biological sciences |
| =134 | University of Melbourne | 134th in the world for biological sciences |
| =146 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 146th in the world for biological sciences |
| =150 | University of Montreal | 150th in the world for biological sciences |
| =156 | University of Manchester | 156th in the world for biological sciences |
| =157 | Rice University | 157th in the world for biological sciences |
| =159 | Tohoku University | 159th in the world for biological sciences |
| =160 | University of Sao Paulo | 160th in the world for biological sciences |
| =165 | Sorbonne University | 165th in the world for biological sciences |
| =170 | PSL University | 170th in the world for biological sciences |
| =174 | Boston University | 174th in the world for biological sciences |
| =179 | King's College London | 179th in the world for biological sciences |
| =181 | Nanyang Technological University | 181st in the world for biological sciences |
| =185 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 185th in the world for biological sciences |
| =190 | University of Glasgow | 190th in the world for biological sciences |
| =202 | University of New South Wales | 202nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =203 | Queen Mary University of London | 203rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =206 | University of Leeds | 206th in the world for biological sciences |
| =209 | University of Birmingham | 209th in the world for biological sciences |
| =216 | University of Amsterdam | 216th in the world for biological sciences |
| =222 | Brown University | 222nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =232 | Delft University of Technology | 232nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =235 | University of Maryland, College Park | 235th in the world for biological sciences |
| =239 | KAIST | 239th in the world for biological sciences |
| =251 | City University of Hong Kong | 251st in the world for biological sciences |
| =257 | Australian National University | 257th in the world for biological sciences |
| =259 | Korea University | 259th in the world for biological sciences |
| =269 | University of Western Australia | 269th in the world for biological sciences |
| =274 | Carnegie Mellon University | 274th in the world for biological sciences |
| =280 | University of St Andrews | 280th in the world for biological sciences |
| =281 | University of Southampton | 281st in the world for biological sciences |
| =292 | University of Nottingham | 292nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =293 | University of Sheffield | 293rd in the world for biological sciences |
| =306 | Durham University | 306th in the world for biological sciences |
| =317 | Yonsei University | 317th in the world for biological sciences |
| =318 | University of Adelaide | 318th in the world for biological sciences |
| =356 | Macquarie University | 356th in the world for biological sciences |
| =359 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | 359th in the world for biological sciences |
| =361 | RWTH Aachen University | 361st in the world for biological sciences |
| =375 | Queensland University of Technology | 375th in the world for biological sciences |
| =384 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 384th in the world for biological sciences |
| =398 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 398th in the world for biological sciences |
| =415 | University of Warwick | 415th in the world for biological sciences |
| =416 | University of Newcastle | 416th in the world for biological sciences |
| =432 | University of Technology Sydney | 432nd in the world for biological sciences |
| =459 | University of Otago | 459th in the world for biological sciences |
| =477 | Griffith University | 477th in the world for biological sciences |
| =480 | James Cook University | 480th in the world for biological sciences |