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We are providing our valued visitors with a list of top colleges in the United States for them to choose from. Last time we gathered a list of 7 colleges to consider in the United States, this time we have come up with a list of top 10 medical schools in the United States.

The rankings are based on US News & World Report criterion.

1. Harvard University (Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America.

Harvard University Library.

The Harvard University Library System, centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprising over 90 individual libraries and over 15 million volumes, is considered the fourth largest library collection in the world, after the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the French Bibliothèque Nationale.

John Harvard Statue at Harvard University.

A statue of John Harvard, sculpted by Daniel Chester French, sits in Harvard Yard at Harvard University. The statue, known by Harvard tour guides as the statue of three lies, claims that it depicts John Harvard, Founder, 1638, but in reality Harvard was merely a contributor, not the founder; the institution was founded in 1636; and the statue is actually a likeness of somebody else.

2. Johns Hopkins University (Located in Baltimore, Maryland)

The Johns Hopkins University is a private university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses in greater Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, and China. It is particularly esteemed for its medical, scientific, and international studies programs.

Mason Hall.
A brand new building that houses undergrad admissions.

3. University of Pennsylvania (Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is America’s first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. As a member of the Ivy League, Penn is also one of the Colonial Colleges.

Benjamin Franklin statue at University of Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin, Penn’s founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating several “faculties” (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.

4. Washington University in St. Louis (Located in St. Louis County, Missouri)

Washington University in St. Louis is a nonsectarian, private research university located in St. Louis County, Missouri. The university has students and faculty from all 50 US states and more than 125 nations. Twenty-two Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, nine doing the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University is made up of seven graduate and undergraduate schools that encompass a broad range of academic fields.

Olin Library

Washington University was co-founded in 1853 as a nonsectarian, private institution by St. Louis leader Wayman Crow, and the Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the Nobel Prize laureate poet T. S. Eliot.

5. University of California, San Francisco (Located in San Francisco)

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is one of the world’s leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF’s medical, pharmacy, dental, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world.

Head Columns

Founded in 1873, the mission of UCSF is to serve as a “public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health.” Though one of the ten campuses of the University of California, it is unique for being the only University of California campus dedicated solely to graduate education, and this in health and biomedical sciences.

6. University of Washington (Located in Seattle, Washington)

The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest university in the Northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast.

Drumheller Fountain

The university is known as a Public Ivy, an American term for state-funded institutions of higher learning that “provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price.”

7. Stanford University (Located in Stanford, California)

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a highly selective and well regarded private university located in Stanford, California, United States

Clark Center I

Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid just before his 16th birthday.

8. Duke University (Located in Durham, North Carolina)

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.

Duke Chapel

Besides academics, research, and athletics, Duke is also well known for its sizable campus and Gothic architecture, especially Duke Chapel. The forests surrounding parts of the campus belie the University’s proximity to downtown Durham.

8. Yale University (Located in New Haven, Connecticut)

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are its undergraduate school, Yale College, and the Yale Law School, each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state.

Beinecke Library

Originally called the Collegiate School, the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson, in Killingworth (now Clinton). It later moved to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield.

10. Baylor College of Medicine (Located in Houston, Texas)

Baylor College of Medicine, located in Houston, Texas, USA, is one of the world’s leading centers for biomedical research and clinical care. Situated within the Texas Medical Center, a 1,000-acre complex that is home to 46 member institutions and is the largest medical center in the world.

Baylor College of Medicine, Cullen Building

The school was formed in 1900 in Dallas, Texas as University of Dallas Medical Department. It allied with Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1903 and moved to the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas in 1943.

10. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan)

The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, abbreviated P&S, is a graduate school of Columbia University located on the health sciences campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.