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Nature Index: Health Sciences (2025)
2025 edition · health sciences
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Published at https://www.nature.com/nature-index/annual-tables/2025/institution/academic/health-sciences/global
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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.
- 1Harvard University1st in the world for health sciences
- 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University2nd in the world for health sciences
- 4Fudan University4th in the world for health sciences
- 5Zhejiang University5th in the world for health sciences
- 6Stanford University6th in the world for health sciences
- 7Johns Hopkins University7th in the world for health sciences
- 8University of Pennsylvania8th in the world for health sciences
- 9University of Toronto9th in the world for health sciences
- 10University of California, San Francisco10th in the world for health sciences
- 11University of Michigan-Ann Arbor11th in the world for health sciences
- 12Peking University12th in the world for health sciences
- 13Yale University13th in the world for health sciences
- 16Columbia University16th in the world for health sciences
- 17University of Washington17th in the world for health sciences
- 18University of Oxford18th in the world for health sciences
- 19University of California, Los Angeles19th in the world for health sciences
- 21Duke University21st in the world for health sciences
- 22University of California, San Diego22nd in the world for health sciences
- 23Karolinska Institute23rd in the world for health sciences
- 24Northwestern University24th in the world for health sciences
- 25University of Pittsburgh25th in the world for health sciences
- 27Cornell University27th in the world for health sciences
- 30Tsinghua University30th in the world for health sciences
- 32Massachusetts Institute of Technology32nd in the world for health sciences
- 33New York University33rd in the world for health sciences
- 35Seoul National University35th in the world for health sciences
- 38University College London38th in the world for health sciences
- 39University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill39th in the world for health sciences
- 40University of Cambridge40th in the world for health sciences
- 43Vanderbilt University43rd in the world for health sciences
- 44McGill University44th in the world for health sciences
- 46University of Science and Technology of China46th in the world for health sciences
- 47University of Copenhagen47th in the world for health sciences
- 51Boston University51st in the world for health sciences
- 52Ohio State University52nd in the world for health sciences
- 53Imperial College London53rd in the world for health sciences
- 54University of Southern California54th in the world for health sciences
- 55University of Chicago55th in the world for health sciences
- 56University of Minnesota56th in the world for health sciences
- 60National University of Singapore60th in the world for health sciences
- 61University of Melbourne61st in the world for health sciences
- 62Monash University62nd in the world for health sciences
- 64University of Wisconsin-Madison64th in the world for health sciences
- 66University of Hong Kong66th in the world for health sciences
- 68University of Zurich68th in the world for health sciences
- 72Yonsei University72nd in the world for health sciences
- 78University of Queensland78th in the world for health sciences
- 79ETH Zurich79th in the world for health sciences
- 80University of Sydney80th in the world for health sciences
- 81Chinese University of Hong Kong81st in the world for health sciences
- 82Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich82nd in the world for health sciences
- 83King's College London83rd in the world for health sciences
- 84University of British Columbia84th in the world for health sciences
- 86KU Leuven86th in the world for health sciences
- 88University of California, Berkeley88th in the world for health sciences
- 90University of Tokyo90th in the world for health sciences
- 97University of Amsterdam97th in the world for health sciences
- 104Heidelberg University104th in the world for health sciences
- 105University of New South Wales105th in the world for health sciences
- 114University of Edinburgh114th in the world for health sciences
- 116University of Montreal116th in the world for health sciences
- 119Utrecht University119th in the world for health sciences
- 121Hebrew University of Jerusalem121st in the world for health sciences
- 123Tel Aviv University123rd in the world for health sciences
- 125University of Glasgow125th in the world for health sciences
- 126Pennsylvania State University126th in the world for health sciences
- 127Brown University127th in the world for health sciences
- 132Nanyang Technological University132nd in the world for health sciences
- 134Osaka University134th in the world for health sciences
- 137Technical University of Munich137th in the world for health sciences
- 139Lund University139th in the world for health sciences
- 142Kyoto University142nd in the world for health sciences
- 144University of Texas at Austin144th in the world for health sciences
- 149University of Birmingham149th in the world for health sciences
- 154Princeton University154th in the world for health sciences
- 156KAIST156th in the world for health sciences
- 163City University of Hong Kong163rd in the world for health sciences
- 164University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign164th in the world for health sciences
- 168Purdue University168th in the world for health sciences
- 170Korea University170th in the world for health sciences
- 171University of Alberta171st in the world for health sciences
- 175University of Sao Paulo175th in the world for health sciences
- 190EPFL190th in the world for health sciences
- 191University of Manchester191st in the world for health sciences
- 192University of Bristol192nd in the world for health sciences
- 195Queen Mary University of London195th in the world for health sciences
- 219PSL University219th in the world for health sciences
- 221California Institute of Technology221st in the world for health sciences
- 222Institute of Science Tokyo222nd in the world for health sciences
- 228Hong Kong University of Science and Technology228th in the world for health sciences
- 231University of Leeds231st in the world for health sciences
- 234RWTH Aachen University234th in the world for health sciences
- 248Georgia Institute of Technology248th in the world for health sciences
- 251Carnegie Mellon University251st in the world for health sciences
- 259University of Auckland259th in the world for health sciences
- 260Sorbonne University260th in the world for health sciences
- 261University of Sheffield261st in the world for health sciences
- 278Rice University278th in the world for health sciences
- 300Tohoku University300th in the world for health sciences
- 305University of Maryland, College Park305th in the world for health sciences
- 313University of Western Australia313th in the world for health sciences
- 329Australian National University329th in the world for health sciences
- 347University of Nottingham347th in the world for health sciences
- 350University of Warwick350th in the world for health sciences
- 351University of Otago351st in the world for health sciences
- 359University of Vienna359th in the world for health sciences
- 376University of Adelaide376th in the world for health sciences
- 389KTH Royal Institute of Technology389th in the world for health sciences
- 391University of Southampton391st in the world for health sciences
- 429Macquarie University429th in the world for health sciences
- 437Griffith University437th in the world for health sciences
- 444RMIT University444th in the world for health sciences
- 447King Abdullah University of Science and Technology447th in the world for health sciences
- 482Deakin University482nd in the world for health sciences
- 488University of Newcastle488th in the world for health sciences