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- 115 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 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.
| Rank | Institution | Claim |
|---|---|---|
| =1 | Harvard University | 1st in the world for health sciences |
| =2 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 2nd in the world for health sciences |
| =4 | Fudan University | 4th in the world for health sciences |
| =5 | Zhejiang University | 5th in the world for health sciences |
| =6 | Stanford University | 6th in the world for health sciences |
| =7 | Johns Hopkins University | 7th in the world for health sciences |
| =8 | University of Pennsylvania | 8th in the world for health sciences |
| =9 | University of Toronto | 9th in the world for health sciences |
| =10 | University of California, San Francisco | 10th in the world for health sciences |
| =11 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 11th in the world for health sciences |
| =12 | Peking University | 12th in the world for health sciences |
| =13 | Yale University | 13th in the world for health sciences |
| =16 | Columbia University | 16th in the world for health sciences |
| =17 | University of Washington | 17th in the world for health sciences |
| =18 | University of Oxford | 18th in the world for health sciences |
| =19 | University of California, Los Angeles | 19th in the world for health sciences |
| =21 | Duke University | 21st in the world for health sciences |
| =22 | University of California, San Diego | 22nd in the world for health sciences |
| =23 | Karolinska Institute | 23rd in the world for health sciences |
| =24 | Northwestern University | 24th in the world for health sciences |
| =25 | University of Pittsburgh | 25th in the world for health sciences |
| =27 | Cornell University | 27th in the world for health sciences |
| =30 | Tsinghua University | 30th in the world for health sciences |
| =32 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 32nd in the world for health sciences |
| =33 | New York University | 33rd in the world for health sciences |
| =35 | Seoul National University | 35th in the world for health sciences |
| =38 | University College London | 38th in the world for health sciences |
| =39 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 39th in the world for health sciences |
| =40 | University of Cambridge | 40th in the world for health sciences |
| =43 | Vanderbilt University | 43rd in the world for health sciences |
| =44 | McGill University | 44th in the world for health sciences |
| =46 | University of Science and Technology of China | 46th in the world for health sciences |
| =47 | University of Copenhagen | 47th in the world for health sciences |
| =51 | Boston University | 51st in the world for health sciences |
| =52 | Ohio State University | 52nd in the world for health sciences |
| =53 | Imperial College London | 53rd in the world for health sciences |
| =54 | University of Southern California | 54th in the world for health sciences |
| =55 | University of Chicago | 55th in the world for health sciences |
| =56 | University of Minnesota | 56th in the world for health sciences |
| =60 | National University of Singapore | 60th in the world for health sciences |
| =61 | University of Melbourne | 61st in the world for health sciences |
| =62 | Monash University | 62nd in the world for health sciences |
| =64 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 64th in the world for health sciences |
| =66 | University of Hong Kong | 66th in the world for health sciences |
| =68 | University of Zurich | 68th in the world for health sciences |
| =72 | Yonsei University | 72nd in the world for health sciences |
| =78 | University of Queensland | 78th in the world for health sciences |
| =79 | ETH Zurich | 79th in the world for health sciences |
| =80 | University of Sydney | 80th in the world for health sciences |
| =81 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 81st in the world for health sciences |
| =82 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | 82nd in the world for health sciences |
| =83 | King's College London | 83rd in the world for health sciences |
| =84 | University of British Columbia | 84th in the world for health sciences |
| =86 | KU Leuven | 86th in the world for health sciences |
| =88 | University of California, Berkeley | 88th in the world for health sciences |
| =90 | University of Tokyo | 90th in the world for health sciences |
| =97 | University of Amsterdam | 97th in the world for health sciences |
| =104 | Heidelberg University | 104th in the world for health sciences |
| =105 | University of New South Wales | 105th in the world for health sciences |
| =114 | University of Edinburgh | 114th in the world for health sciences |
| =116 | University of Montreal | 116th in the world for health sciences |
| =119 | Utrecht University | 119th in the world for health sciences |
| =121 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 121st in the world for health sciences |
| =123 | Tel Aviv University | 123rd in the world for health sciences |
| =125 | University of Glasgow | 125th in the world for health sciences |
| =126 | Pennsylvania State University | 126th in the world for health sciences |
| =127 | Brown University | 127th in the world for health sciences |
| =132 | Nanyang Technological University | 132nd in the world for health sciences |
| =134 | Osaka University | 134th in the world for health sciences |
| =137 | Technical University of Munich | 137th in the world for health sciences |
| =139 | Lund University | 139th in the world for health sciences |
| =142 | Kyoto University | 142nd in the world for health sciences |
| =144 | University of Texas at Austin | 144th in the world for health sciences |
| =149 | University of Birmingham | 149th in the world for health sciences |
| =154 | Princeton University | 154th in the world for health sciences |
| =156 | KAIST | 156th in the world for health sciences |
| =163 | City University of Hong Kong | 163rd in the world for health sciences |
| =164 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 164th in the world for health sciences |
| =168 | Purdue University | 168th in the world for health sciences |
| =170 | Korea University | 170th in the world for health sciences |
| =171 | University of Alberta | 171st in the world for health sciences |
| =175 | University of Sao Paulo | 175th in the world for health sciences |
| =190 | EPFL | 190th in the world for health sciences |
| =191 | University of Manchester | 191st in the world for health sciences |
| =192 | University of Bristol | 192nd in the world for health sciences |
| =195 | Queen Mary University of London | 195th in the world for health sciences |
| =219 | PSL University | 219th in the world for health sciences |
| =221 | California Institute of Technology | 221st in the world for health sciences |
| =222 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 222nd in the world for health sciences |
| =228 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 228th in the world for health sciences |
| =231 | University of Leeds | 231st in the world for health sciences |
| =234 | RWTH Aachen University | 234th in the world for health sciences |
| =248 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 248th in the world for health sciences |
| =251 | Carnegie Mellon University | 251st in the world for health sciences |
| =259 | University of Auckland | 259th in the world for health sciences |
| =260 | Sorbonne University | 260th in the world for health sciences |
| =261 | University of Sheffield | 261st in the world for health sciences |
| =278 | Rice University | 278th in the world for health sciences |
| =300 | Tohoku University | 300th in the world for health sciences |
| =305 | University of Maryland, College Park | 305th in the world for health sciences |
| =313 | University of Western Australia | 313th in the world for health sciences |
| =329 | Australian National University | 329th in the world for health sciences |
| =347 | University of Nottingham | 347th in the world for health sciences |
| =350 | University of Warwick | 350th in the world for health sciences |
| =351 | University of Otago | 351st in the world for health sciences |
| =359 | University of Vienna | 359th in the world for health sciences |
| =376 | University of Adelaide | 376th in the world for health sciences |
| =389 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 389th in the world for health sciences |
| =391 | University of Southampton | 391st in the world for health sciences |
| =429 | Macquarie University | 429th in the world for health sciences |
| =437 | Griffith University | 437th in the world for health sciences |
| =444 | RMIT University | 444th in the world for health sciences |
| =447 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | 447th in the world for health sciences |
| =482 | Deakin University | 482nd in the world for health sciences |
| =488 | University of Newcastle | 488th in the world for health sciences |