US News & World Report has released a preview of its top medical schools for research for the 2023 and 2024 school year.
This is the publication's first medical school ranking using its new methodology, which takes into consideration factors including the addition of National Institutes of Health grant awards as a measure of research quality, an increase in the weight of faculty-to-student ratios, a reduction in overall rates of reputation surveys and a reduction in MCAT and GPA scores.
US News changed its ranking methodology following a boycott of the list by a number of well-known medical schools.
Of the 15 schools named on the top of the list, nine withdrew from the rankings, refusing to submit data for 2023.
The full list will be available to the public on April 18.
Top 15 research medical schools for 2023, based on new ranking methodology:
1. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
2. University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia)
3. Harvard University (Boston)
4. University of California San Francisco (tie)
4. Washington University in St. Louis (tie)
6. Columbia University (New York City)
7. Stanford (Calif.) University (tie)
7. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) (tie)
9. Duke University (Durham, N.C.) (tie)
9. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) (tie)
11. University of Pittsburgh
12. Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago)
13. New York University-Grossman School of Medicine
14. Cornell University-Weill Medical College (New York City) (tie)
14. Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (Rochester, Minn.) (tie)