Top Pediatric Medical Schools

University of Cincinnati

• According to U.S. News and World Report, the University of Cincinnati had the third-best pediatric medical school, according to its 2009 rankings. U.S. News and World Report is one of the most respected ranking publications of colleges and universities throughout the country. Results are based on a number of factors, the most important of which is the opinions of academic faculty members surveyed nationwide. One of the strengths of the University of Cincinnati pediatrics programs is its intensive curriculum, which is considered one of the most rigorous in the nation.

  Cincinnati's medical school has been around since 1990. Its sponsorship of a well-respected children's hospital has played a key role in the development of its reputation as a renown school for the study of pediatric medicine. The program deliberately admits relatively few students each year in order to keep class sizes manageable and to ensure that students receive adequate training. Medical students at Cincinnati do remarkably well on their board exams, a fact that the school attributes to the high-quality training and attention its students receive.

  University of Cincinnati
  College of Medicine
  231 Albert Sabin Way
  Cincinnati, OH 45267-0552
  (513) 558-7314
  med.uc.edu

University of Pennsylvania

• The University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia, is considered one of the best pediatric medical schools in the nation, but it also ranks as one of the top medical schools in the nation as well. Like the University of Cincinnati, the University of Pennsylvania's pediatric division within its medical school is closely allied with a major children's medical hospital. U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Pennsylvania's program as the second best in the nation for 2009. In 2006, U.S. News had rated the children's hospital in Philadelphia as the best in the nation. Within the school of pediatric medicine, there are 13 subspecialty divisions including a cardiology department.

  University of Pennsylvania
  237 John Morgan Building
  3620 Hamilton Walk
  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6055
  (215) 898-8001
  med.upenn.edu/pediatrics/

Harvard University

• Harvard University has not only the top-rated medical school in the world, it also has the top-rated pediatrics school of medicine as well. U.S. News and World Report rated Harvard University above all other medical schools with highly rated pediatric divisions. Harvard's reputation in pediatric medicine stems, not from the fact that it has a separate pediatric division like the universities of Cincinnati and Pennsylvania, but rather from the fact that Harvard's pediatric division is distributed throughout the medical school. In other words, pediatric medicine is covered in the research of all other departments within the medical school. Harvard's medical school tops all other medical schools in terms of research, much of it due to its research budget which annually exceeds $500 million. Like the universities of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Harvard is closely aligned with a well-respected children's hospital (Children's Hospital Boston), which serves as its primary teaching facility.

  Harvard University
  Medical School
  25 Shattuck Street Boston
  MA 02115-6092
  (617) 432-1550
  harvard.edu