The World University Index

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Nature Index: Health Sciences (2025)

2025 edition · health sciences

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Cited by 3 institutions, though none for this edition.

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Published at https://www.nature.com/nature-index/annual-tables/2025/institution/academic/health-sciences/global

In their own words

Citing other editions of this index

  • the 2019 Nature Index ranked University of California San Diego ninth among the top 200 institutions in biomedical sciences worldwide

    University of California, San Diegosource · retrieved 2026-09-06

  • According to the latest Nature Index, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is one of the leading universities in the natural and life sciences.

    University of Wurzburgsource · retrieved 2026-09-06

  • Zhejiang University (ZJU) has been ranked first among academic institutions worldwide in the Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings

    Zhejiang Universitysource · retrieved 2026-09-06

Recorded placements 115

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

  1. 1Harvard University1st in the world for health sciences
  2. 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University2nd in the world for health sciences
  3. 4Fudan University4th in the world for health sciences
  4. 5Zhejiang University5th in the world for health sciences
  5. 6Stanford University6th in the world for health sciences
  6. 7Johns Hopkins University7th in the world for health sciences
  7. 8University of Pennsylvania8th in the world for health sciences
  8. 9University of Toronto9th in the world for health sciences
  9. 10University of California, San Francisco10th in the world for health sciences
  10. 11University of Michigan-Ann Arbor11th in the world for health sciences
  11. 12Peking University12th in the world for health sciences
  12. 13Yale University13th in the world for health sciences
  13. 16Columbia University16th in the world for health sciences
  14. 17University of Washington17th in the world for health sciences
  15. 18University of Oxford18th in the world for health sciences
  16. 19University of California, Los Angeles19th in the world for health sciences
  17. 21Duke University21st in the world for health sciences
  18. 22University of California, San Diego22nd in the world for health sciences
  19. 23Karolinska Institute23rd in the world for health sciences
  20. 24Northwestern University24th in the world for health sciences
  21. 25University of Pittsburgh25th in the world for health sciences
  22. 27Cornell University27th in the world for health sciences
  23. 30Tsinghua University30th in the world for health sciences
  24. 32Massachusetts Institute of Technology32nd in the world for health sciences
  25. 33New York University33rd in the world for health sciences
  26. 35Seoul National University35th in the world for health sciences
  27. 38University College London38th in the world for health sciences
  28. 39University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill39th in the world for health sciences
  29. 40University of Cambridge40th in the world for health sciences
  30. 43Vanderbilt University43rd in the world for health sciences
  31. 44McGill University44th in the world for health sciences
  32. 46University of Science and Technology of China46th in the world for health sciences
  33. 47University of Copenhagen47th in the world for health sciences
  34. 51Boston University51st in the world for health sciences
  35. 52Ohio State University52nd in the world for health sciences
  36. 53Imperial College London53rd in the world for health sciences
  37. 54University of Southern California54th in the world for health sciences
  38. 55University of Chicago55th in the world for health sciences
  39. 56University of Minnesota56th in the world for health sciences
  40. 60National University of Singapore60th in the world for health sciences
  41. 61University of Melbourne61st in the world for health sciences
  42. 62Monash University62nd in the world for health sciences
  43. 64University of Wisconsin-Madison64th in the world for health sciences
  44. 66University of Hong Kong66th in the world for health sciences
  45. 68University of Zurich68th in the world for health sciences
  46. 72Yonsei University72nd in the world for health sciences
  47. 78University of Queensland78th in the world for health sciences
  48. 79ETH Zurich79th in the world for health sciences
  49. 80University of Sydney80th in the world for health sciences
  50. 81Chinese University of Hong Kong81st in the world for health sciences
  51. 82Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich82nd in the world for health sciences
  52. 83King's College London83rd in the world for health sciences
  53. 84University of British Columbia84th in the world for health sciences
  54. 86KU Leuven86th in the world for health sciences
  55. 88University of California, Berkeley88th in the world for health sciences
  56. 90University of Tokyo90th in the world for health sciences
  57. 97University of Amsterdam97th in the world for health sciences
  58. 104Heidelberg University104th in the world for health sciences
  59. 105University of New South Wales105th in the world for health sciences
  60. 114University of Edinburgh114th in the world for health sciences
  61. 116University of Montreal116th in the world for health sciences
  62. 119Utrecht University119th in the world for health sciences
  63. 121Hebrew University of Jerusalem121st in the world for health sciences
  64. 123Tel Aviv University123rd in the world for health sciences
  65. 125University of Glasgow125th in the world for health sciences
  66. 126Pennsylvania State University126th in the world for health sciences
  67. 127Brown University127th in the world for health sciences
  68. 132Nanyang Technological University132nd in the world for health sciences
  69. 134Osaka University134th in the world for health sciences
  70. 137Technical University of Munich137th in the world for health sciences
  71. 139Lund University139th in the world for health sciences
  72. 142Kyoto University142nd in the world for health sciences
  73. 144University of Texas at Austin144th in the world for health sciences
  74. 149University of Birmingham149th in the world for health sciences
  75. 154Princeton University154th in the world for health sciences
  76. 156KAIST156th in the world for health sciences
  77. 163City University of Hong Kong163rd in the world for health sciences
  78. 164University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign164th in the world for health sciences
  79. 168Purdue University168th in the world for health sciences
  80. 170Korea University170th in the world for health sciences
  81. 171University of Alberta171st in the world for health sciences
  82. 175University of Sao Paulo175th in the world for health sciences
  83. 190EPFL190th in the world for health sciences
  84. 191University of Manchester191st in the world for health sciences
  85. 192University of Bristol192nd in the world for health sciences
  86. 195Queen Mary University of London195th in the world for health sciences
  87. 219PSL University219th in the world for health sciences
  88. 221California Institute of Technology221st in the world for health sciences
  89. 222Institute of Science Tokyo222nd in the world for health sciences
  90. 228Hong Kong University of Science and Technology228th in the world for health sciences
  91. 231University of Leeds231st in the world for health sciences
  92. 234RWTH Aachen University234th in the world for health sciences
  93. 248Georgia Institute of Technology248th in the world for health sciences
  94. 251Carnegie Mellon University251st in the world for health sciences
  95. 259University of Auckland259th in the world for health sciences
  96. 260Sorbonne University260th in the world for health sciences
  97. 261University of Sheffield261st in the world for health sciences
  98. 278Rice University278th in the world for health sciences
  99. 300Tohoku University300th in the world for health sciences
  100. 305University of Maryland, College Park305th in the world for health sciences
  101. 313University of Western Australia313th in the world for health sciences
  102. 329Australian National University329th in the world for health sciences
  103. 347University of Nottingham347th in the world for health sciences
  104. 350University of Warwick350th in the world for health sciences
  105. 351University of Otago351st in the world for health sciences
  106. 359University of Vienna359th in the world for health sciences
  107. 376University of Adelaide376th in the world for health sciences
  108. 389KTH Royal Institute of Technology389th in the world for health sciences
  109. 391University of Southampton391st in the world for health sciences
  110. 429Macquarie University429th in the world for health sciences
  111. 437Griffith University437th in the world for health sciences
  112. 444RMIT University444th in the world for health sciences
  113. 447King Abdullah University of Science and Technology447th in the world for health sciences
  114. 482Deakin University482nd in the world for health sciences
  115. 488University of Newcastle488th in the world for health sciences