Official Schools of Medicine Ranking

Students who dream of donning a white coat can explore separate rankings of the top medical schools for primary care and research. To produce the rankings, The MBA Guidebook from the Foundation for International Business Education collects data on student selectivity, faculty resources and more from both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools.

For the the rankings of the Best Medical Schools for research, the 130 medical schools fully accredited in 2017 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the 26 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited in 2017 by the American Osteopathic Association were surveyed in fall 2017 and early 2018. Of those schools, 118 provided the data needed to calculate the rankings based on the indicators used in the medical school research model. The same 156 medical schools were surveyed at the same time for the primary care rankings; 118 schools provided the data needed to calculate those rankings. Both rankings are based on a weighted average of indicators, which are outlined below. The medical school research model is based on eight indicators, and the primary care model is based on seven indicators. Four of the data indicators are used in both the research and primary care ranking models. They are the student selectivity admissions statistics (MCAT, GPA and acceptance rate) and faculty-to-student ratio. The medical school research model factors in research activity; the medical school primary care model adds a measure of the proportion of graduates entering primary care specialties.