Top Medical Schools in Britain

University of Dundee

• The topped ranked university in Great Britain is not in England, but rather in northern Scotland. The school is unique in that its medical college is comprised of three small schools: School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, and School of Nursing and Midwifery. Located in Dundee, the second largest city after Edinburgh, the University is set in a moderate urban setting. Students applying to the Dundee Medical College must follow the same application procedures as those applying for undergraduate studies at the university.

  University of Dundee
  Nethergate, Dundee
  Scotland
  DD1 4HN
  UK
  www.dundee.ac.uk

University of Cambridge

• Cambridge has held the reputation as being one of the top universities in the world for over 800 years (1209-2009). There are over 30 distinct colleges in the University, the school of Medicine being just a small part of the wide range of studies offered. The Cambridge Medical school is one of the most highly contested in the world as many of the worlds top most recognizable medical professionals emerge from the school.

  University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
  Addenbrooke's Hospital, Box 111
  Hills Road
  Cambridge
  CB2 0SP.
  UK
  www.cam.ac.uk

Oxford

• The University of Oxford's Division of Medical Sciences lacks nothing in competition to Dundee or its top rival school, Cambridge. Over 900 years old, Oxford is the most established English speaking university in the world. Myriad Nobel prize winners have emerged from Oxfords halls, medical scientists among them. In the Medical Sciences, there are 21 departments along with a noteworthy cancer research department.
  University of Oxford Medical Sciences Office
  John Radcliffe Hospital
  Headington
  Oxford
  OX3 9DU
  UK
  www.ox.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh

• Located in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, the University, like the others is comprised of multiple colleges including humanities, social sciences, engineering, and medicine. The college of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is one of the largest in the United Kingdom, the college contains four distinct schools: the School of Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Molecular and Clinical Medicine, and the Royal School of Veterinary Studies. The veterinary school is among the top research centers in the world.

  The University of Edinburgh
  The Queen's Medical Research Institute
  47 Little France Crescent
  Edinburgh
  EH16 4TJ
  UK
  www.ed.ac.uk

University College London, UCL

• University College London, known as UCL, was established as an alternative to the prestige selectivity of Cambridge and Oxford, and is regarded as the third oldest university in the UK. However, it lacks little of what Cambridge and Oxford have to offer in all colleges as well as the School of Medicine. The school takes about 330 undergraduate medical students each year divided into a wide range of divisions. The school has also produced Nobel scholars and award winning scientists in the medical sciences.

  University College London
  Gower Street
  London, WC1E 6BT
  UK
  www.ucl.ac.uk