The Best Medical Universities in America

Johns Hopkins University

• Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1893 in Baltimore Maryland. The School of Medicine is linked to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Howard County General Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The school was ranked third in the U.S News & World Report's list of top medical schools in the United States in 2010; John Hopkins Hospital was ranked the number 1 hospital by the same publication. The school has been at the forefront of many medical breakthroughs. It was the first research center to discover that embryonic stem cells can develop into nearly any type of cell in the adult body, the first to draft the breast and colon cancer genome and the first to develop effective treatment for sickle cell anemia.

  Students pursuing a Ph.D., instead of an M.D., can choose between biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, biological chemistry, biomedical engineering, health sciences, informatics, human genetics and molecular biology, immunology, cellular and molecular medicine, molecular biophysics, neuroscience, pharmacology and molecular sciences, pathobiology, cellular and molecular physiology, functional anatomy and evolution, and history of science.

  The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  733 North Broadway
  Baltimore, MD 21205
  410-955-5000
  hopkinsmedicine.org

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

• The University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine is the oldest in the United States, dating back to 1765. In 2010 it was the second-ranked medical school, according to U.S News & World Report, and in 2007 had the second largest amount of research funding of any medical school in the U.S., $556 million. The school is affiliated with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and Pennsylvania Hospital. Doctoral programs include biochemistry and molecular biophysics, cell and molecular biology, epidemiology and biostatistics, genomics and computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and pharmacological sciences.

  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  295 John Morgan Building
  3620 Hamilton Walk
  Philadelphia, PA 19194-6055
  215-898-6796
  www.med.upenn.edu

Harvard Medical School

• Harvard Medical School was ranked as the top medical university in the United States by U.S News and World Report in 2010. Students on the M.D course choose between a medical research program run by the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), which is known as the HST Program, or a problem-based program called the New Pathway. Only 30 students every year are admitted to the HST program, so spaces are limited. Ph.D. progams include biological and biomedical sciences, immunology, neuroscience and virology. The school also offers a combined M.D and Ph.D. program.

  Harvard Medical School
  25 Shattuck St.
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-432-1000
  hms.harvard.edu