This year's "Best Medical Schools" rankings
from U.S. News & World Report have been released, marking the second time top institutions for research and primary care were sorted into tiers, and not assigned ordinal rankings.
Like last year, medical schools are ranked using a four-tier system in which overall scores were calculated based on percentile performance compared to all rated schools. Peer assessment or professional reputation surveys were not included in the methodology, U.S. News noted.
Last year's rankings had been rolled out with substantial changes after being delayed for the second year in a row. These changes included the first move away from ordinal rankings, which the "Best Hospitals" rankings from U.S. News have since also implemented.
Further back in the rocky road for the rankings, in 2023, a number of top schools had said they would no longer submit data to or participate in the rankings. Harvard Medical School led the way in doing so, and a number of other institutions followed suit.
Ultimately, for the 2025 lists, there were 105 medical and osteopathic schools with eligible data for the research rankings, and 99 schools with data for the primary care rankings.
For this year's rankings, U.S. News surveyed medical and osteopathic schools fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association.
Survey data, in combination with third-party statistics, were used to assign tiers. Indicators used to determine top institutions for research included total research activity, total research activity per faculty member, total NIH research grants, and average NIH research grants per faculty, while indicators used for primary care included the proportions of medical school graduates practicing in primary care specialties and medical school graduates entering primary care residencies.
Other indicators used for both research and primary care were median Medical College Admission Test score, median undergraduate GPA, acceptance rate, and faculty resources.
No medical schools were assessed solely on data reported in previous editions.
Like last year, schools that did not submit a U.S. News statistical survey (or submitted a survey that was lacking key data) have been displayed as unranked on the outlet's website. "Although prospective medical school students would benefit from learning more about these unranked schools, a comparative ranking of participating schools is more informative than having no listing at all," U.S. News contended.
The outlet noted that 80% of the top 100 schools in both research and primary care were assessed.
U.S. News added that it "strongly believes in improving medical school data transparency, both by encouraging schools to report data to U.S. News and by making more information publicly available on their websites."
"Altogether, more data is better for everyone," it stated.
Though the 2025 lists of tier 1 (highest performing) schools are not identical to last year's lists, many of the same schools have remained present in this year's iteration. Below are this year's highest performing medical schools in research and primary care, according to U.S. News.
Tier 1 Medical Schools: Research
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
- Emory University, Atlanta
- Hofstra University/Northwell Health (Zucker), Hempstead, New York
- Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Alix), Rochester, Minnesota
- Ohio State University, Columbus
- University of California Los Angeles (Geffen)
- University of California San Diego
- University of California San Francisco
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Rochester, New York
- University of South Florida (Morsani), Tampa
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Tier 1 Medical Schools: Primary Care
- East Carolina University (Brody), Greenville, North Carolina
- East Tennessee State University (Quillen), Johnson City
- Saint Louis University
- Texas A&M University, College Station
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester
- University of Arizona - Tucson
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock
- University of California Davis
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Hawaii - Manoa (Burns), Honolulu
- University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California
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