A 2022 report from U.S. News & World Report ranked the top 20 medical schools for gastroenterology and hepatology for the year, with the University of California San Diego topping the list.
University of California San Diego was also the hardest U.S. university on the list to get into in 2022, with a 1.72 percent acceptance rate, according to data from the university's admissions office pages.
Acceptance rates for the top GI and hepatology medical schools:
1. University of California San Diego: 1.72 percent
2. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.): 3.3 percent
3. University of Barcelona (Spain): *Estimated 75 percent
4. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City): 7.16 percent
5. Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium): *Estimated 34 percent
6. Universite de Paris (France): 60 percent
7. University of Amsterdam (Netherlands): 4 percent
8. Chinese University Hong Kong (China): 10 percent
9. University of Toronto (Canada): 8.3 percent
10. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): 7 percent
11. University College London (England): 63 percent
12. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): 4 percent
13. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: 3.78 percent
14. Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands): *Estimated 45 percent
15. University of California San Francisco: 3.32 percent
16. Sorbonne Universite (France): 100 percent for those who meet listed requirements
17. Northwestern University (Chicago): 7.09 percent
18. Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond.): 4.55 percent
19. Imperial College London (England): 15 percent
20. University of Pittsburgh: 6.02 percent
*School does not release official numbers