Best Medical Schools: Research
Ranked in 2016 | Best Medical Schools: Research Rankings Methodology

A medical career starts with finding the program that best fits your needs. With the U.S. News rankings of the top medical schools for research, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size and test scores.

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Research rank School name Tuition Total medical school enrollment

Median MCAT total score

Median undergraduate GPA
#1
Harvard University
Boston, MA

$55,850 (full-time) 710
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#2
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

$52,491 (full-time) 482
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#3
Tie
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

$48,750 (full-time) 472
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#3
Tie
University of California—​San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

$32,751 (in-state, full-time); $44,996 (out-of-state, full-time) 647
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#3
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University of Pennsylvania (Perelman)
Philadelphia, PA

$52,210 (full-time) 616
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#6
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

$58,460 (full-time) 484
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#7
Columbia University
New York, NY

$55,418 (full-time) 670
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#8
Tie
Duke University
Durham, NC

$53,575 (full-time) 453
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#8
Tie
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

$33,519 (in-state, full-time); $63,954 (out-of-state, full-time) 959
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#8
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Yale University
New Haven, CT

$55,680 (full-time) 396
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#11
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New York University
New York, NY

$49,080 (full-time) 615
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#11
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University of Chicago (Pritzker)
Chicago, IL

$49,581 (full-time) 363
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#11
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University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

$32,428 (in-state, full-time); $50,854 (out-of-state, full-time) 710
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#14
University of California—​Los Angeles (Geffen)
Los Angeles, CA

$31,731 (in-state, full-time); $43,976 (out-of-state, full-time) 748
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#15
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

$47,150 (full-time) 402
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#16
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

$50,010 (in-state, full-time); $51,464 (out-of-state, full-time) 583
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#17
Northwestern University (Feinberg)
Chicago, IL

$53,947 (full-time) 639
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#18
Tie
Cornell University (Weill)
New York, NY

$50,950 (full-time) 423
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#18
Tie
University of California—​San Diego
La Jolla, CA

$31,731 (in-state, full-time); $43,976 (out-of-state, full-time) 521
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#20
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

$19,650 (full-time) 742
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#21
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

$46,388 (full-time) 556
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#22
University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

$21,837 (in-state, full-time); $48,716 (out-of-state, full-time) 829
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#23
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

$49,800 (full-time) 562
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#24
Mayo Medical School
Rochester, MN

$49,900 (full-time) 208
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#25
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Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

$57,475 (full-time) 883
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