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Top 40 Medical Schools Worldwide — 2026

Leading MD, MBBS, and Staatsexamen medical programs with subject rankings, degree type, and tuition from each school official site.

How to use: Subject rankings reflect QS Medicine 2024. Tuition for international students unless noted otherwise — verify on each school admissions page.

#Medical SchoolCountrySubject RankDegreeTuitionSource
1Harvard Medical SchoolUSA#1 QSMD$70,430/yrHarvard MS
2Johns Hopkins School of MedicineUSA#3MD$63,000/yrJHU SoM
3Stanford School of MedicineUSA#4MD$71,000/yrStanford Med
4UCSF School of MedicineUSA#6MD$45,000/yr (in-state)UCSF Med
5Yale School of MedicineUSA#11MD$70,000/yrYale Med
6Columbia VagelosUSA#9MD$73,000/yrVagelos
7Mayo Clinic AlixUSAMD$60,000/yrMayo Med
8Perelman (UPenn)USA#10MD$66,000/yrPenn Med
9Cornell WeillUSA#16MD$67,000/yrWeill
10Duke School of MedicineUSA#17MD$70,000/yrDuke Med
11Karolinska InstitutetSweden#5MDFree EU/EEAKarolinska
12Univ of Cambridge School of MedicineUK#3MBBChir£70k/yr internationalCambridge Med
13Univ of Oxford Medical SciencesUK#2BMBCh£40k/yr internationalOxford Med
14Imperial College School of MedicineUK#10MBBS£50k/yr internationalImperial Med
15UCL Medical SchoolUK#10MBBS£42k/yr internationalUCL Medical
16KCL School of MedicineUK#22MBBS£44k/yr internationalKCL Med
17Univ of Edinburgh Medical SchoolUKMBChB£36k/yr internationalUoE Med
18LMU MunichGermany#23 (QS)StaatsexamenFree (small fees)LMU Med
19Charité BerlinGermany#30StaatsexamenFreeCharité
20HeidelbergGermany#31StaatsexamenFreeUni Heidelberg
21Univ of Toronto Faculty of MedicineCanada#13MDCA$98k/yrUofT Med
22McGill Faculty of MedicineCanada#27MDCMCA$45k/yrMcGill Med
23UBC Faculty of MedicineCanadaMDCA$23k/yrUBC Med
24Univ of MelbourneAustralia#16MDAU$95k/yrMelbourne MD
25Univ of SydneyAustralia#19MDAU$92k/yrSydney MD
26Univ of AucklandNZ#24MBChBNZ$87k/yrAuckland Med
27NUS Yong Loo LinSingapore#21MBBSS$50k/yrNUS Med
28Univ of Hong Kong (Li Ka Shing)HK#26MBBSHK$200k/yrHKU Med
29Peking University Health Science CenterChina#37MBBS¥50k/yrPKUHSC
30Tsinghua School of MedicineChina#48MBBS¥45k/yrTsinghua Med
31Univ of Tokyo Faculty of MedicineJapan#33MD¥535k/yrUTokyo Med
32Kyoto University Faculty of MedicineJapan#42MD¥535k/yrKyoto Med
33Seoul National University College of MedicineS Korea#41MD₩6M/semSNU Med
34Sapienza Univ of RomeItaly#62MBBS€2.8k/yrSapienza Med
35Sorbonne Faculty of MedicineFranceMédecine€~500/yrSorbonne Med
36Univ Paris-SaclayFranceMédecine€~500/yrParis-Saclay
37Erasmus MC RotterdamNetherlands#19MD€19k/yrErasmus MC
38KU Leuven MedicineBelgium#36MD€10k/yrKU Leuven Med
39Trinity College DublinIrelandMB BAO BCh€55k/yr internationalTCD Med
40UNAM Faculty of MedicineMexicoMDFreeUNAM

Sources: Ranks from QS Subject Rankings Medicine 2024. Tuition and degree info from each linked school.

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