International ranking of universities. Criteria for admission
Medical education varies from country to country. In the USA, medicine is studied at graduate school (that is, where at the end they receive degree) after completing an undergraduate degree (after receiving a diploma of higher education), which is not directly related to medicine in any way. In the UK, students can enroll in clinical programs right after school.
In any case, wherever medical education takes place, almost all medical degrees take many years to complete—much longer than non-medical degrees. For this reason, before submitting documents for admission to medical university, it would be right to choose the most worthy of them. To this end, Times Higher Education has compiled a ranking of the "Best Medical Universities in the World" in 2018. In teaching clinical, preclinical and public health courses from 50 countries.
5 Best Medical Universities in the World 2018
1. Oxford University
Medicine in is divided into the stage of preclinical and clinical education. In the first years of training, students learn theory with little or no direct contact with patients. In later years, they move into the clinical training stage, spending a lot of time inJohn Radcliffe Hospital. About 150 students come to Faculty of Medicine Oxford annually and 30 more later ongraduate course, which allows you to compress training to four years.The University of Oxford has at its disposal two main libraries for medical and clinical studies.
Criteria for admission
A level - A * AA scores for three A-levels (excluding Critical Thinking and General Studies) taken in the same academic year. Applicants must achieve at least an A grade in both Chemistry and one of three subjects - Biology, Physics or Mathematics. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE - 39 points and grades 7.6 and 6 in subjects passed on elevated level, one of which must be Chemistry and the other by choice of Biology, Physics and Mathematics.
=2. Cambridge university
As with Oxford University, students can enroll at the undergraduate level of education. Competition for medicine in Cambridge - 6 applicants for one place and a total of about 260 students are accepted. Half of Cambridge Medical School graduates will become General Doctors and almost all will work for the BritishNational Health Service (free healthcare system in the UK).
Admission to the medical school requires the highest grades on or.
Criteria for admission
A level - A * A * A grades in three A-levels exams in chemistry, as well as in one of the three exact sciences - biology, physics or mathematics. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE - 40-42 points and grades of 7.7 and 6 in subjects passed at an advanced level, one of which must be chemistry and others of choice from biology, physics and mathematics.
=2. Harvard
Medical school at Harvard has 3 goals: education, Scientific research and clinical service. The school has 4 main teaching hospitals, all located in the Boston area. The curriculum at Harvard is structured in such a way that learning comes from health-related issues. The school also has a division that only accepts 30 applicants per year and is dedicated to bio-medical research.
=4. Imperial College London
The medical program at Imperial College London offers a wide range of different approaches to learning, ranging from traditional theory lessons to innovative practical exercises. Starting from the very first trimester, unlike traditional British universities, students have the opportunity of direct contact with patients. The six-year graduate program in medicine also includes a Bachelor of Science degree. Like Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College has a strong focus on research, with an emphasis not only on clinical practice but also on research methodology.
Entry requirements are quite high, most of the applicants received the highest marks in chemistry, biology and one more subject.
Criteria for admission
A level - A * AA scores for three A-levels exams, where an A * score was obtained in either chemistry or biology. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE - 38 points and grades 6 and 6 in chemistry and biology, taken at an advanced level.
=4. Stanford University
Stanford University School of Medicine offers master's degrees and PhD degrees to students who wish to continue their medical studies. 7 Nobel laureates, 31 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 42 members of the Institute of Medicine currently teach medicine at the university. Scientists at Stanford Medical School are engaged in research in various areas, including cancer, immunology, genetics, neuroscience, and many others.
Best Medical Universities in the World - Top 50 Universities
| Position in the ranking | University | The country |
| 1 | Great Britain | |
| =2 | Great Britain | |
| =2 | Harvard University | USA |
| =4 | Imperial College London | Great Britain |
| =4 | Stanford University | USA |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins University | USA |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley | USA |
| 8 | Columbia University | USA |
| 9 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| 11 | Duke University | USA |
| 12 | UCL | Great Britain |
| =13 | Washington University in St. Louis | USA |
| =13 | Yale University | USA |
| 15 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 16 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA |
| =17 | University of Edinburgh | Great Britain |
| =17 | King's College London | Great Britain |
| 19 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 20 | University of Washington | USA |
| 21 | University of California, San Diego | USA |
| 22 | University of Chicago | USA |
| 23 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 24 | University of Michigan | USA |
| 25 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 26 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA |
| 27 | McGill University | Canada |
| 28 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 29 | Northwestern University | USA |
| 30 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 31 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 32 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 33 | Boston University | USA |
| 34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 35 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 36 | Emory University | USA |
| 37 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 38 | Brown University | USA |
| 39 | New York University | USA |
| =40 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Holland |
| =40 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 42 | University of Pittsburgh | USA |
| 43 | K.U. Leuven | Belgium |
| 44 | Vanderbilt University | USA |
| 45 | University of Manchester | Great Britain |
| =46 | Monash University | Australia |
| =46 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 48 | University of Amsterdam | Holland |
| 49 | University of Minnesota | USA |
| 50 | Peking University | China |
International rankings today are one of the most important criteria when choosing a university. Especially if we are talking about foreign students who pay for their studies out of their own pocket. The position of the university in the rankings plays a decisive role for them. Especially if we talk about the international rankings QS, THE, Shanghai, RUR university rankings.
783 universities from 74 countries of the world took part in the RUR-2018 ranking, and 10 of our universities were included in its top 500. “In 2010, there were only 11 of our universities in this ranking. Now there are 70! At the same time, the positions of Moscow State University, for example, have grown by 100 points,” says independent analyst Boris Derevyagin.
In the first places of the ranking - Harvard, University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Cambridge university. This ten in different versions is firmly in the lead in all international ratings.
Among Russian universities, Moscow State University has the best indicators, it is in 153rd place and got into the so-called "golden league", MEPhI - in 224th place, Tomsk State University - in 240th place. Top ten most successful Russian universities also MIPT, Novosibirsk State University, St. Petersburg State University, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Tomsk Polytechnic University, ITMO University. Almost all of these universities improved their performance last year. There is also a non-state Russian new university and Moscow State Pedagogical University.
How does the RUR rank universities? In four areas: the quality of teaching, the quality of scientific research, the level of internationalization, financial sustainability. Forte of our universities - the quality of teaching, including - the ratio of the number of teachers and students. According to this indicator, three Russian universities at once got into the top 100: Moscow State University, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Tomsk State University.
With internationalization and the level of quoting, the situation is more complicated. There are 240,000 foreigners studying in our universities, and according to the plans of the Ministry of Education and Science, we need three times as many. In Fiztekh, for example, there are only 266 foreign students. “Six years ago, there were no foreigners at graduate school, now there are 18. Most of the students are from the CIS, there is Belarus, middle Asia, India, China, Africa, European countries and even a few students from the USA," said MIPT Rector Nikolai Kudryavtsev.
Our applicants are most concerned about the passing score of the Unified State Examination, and foreign students are most concerned about the position of the university in the rankings. Photo: Gurin Vladimir/TASS Newsreel
According to the foreigners themselves, Russian universities are very interesting for them in terms of "price-quality" ratio. But strict migration requirements and difficulties with housing interfere. There are few comfortable dormitories, campuses - so far too. Another problem is ignorance of the Russian language. One year at the preparatory department to learn the "great and mighty" is not enough. And programs for foreign languages only available at major leading universities.
"I recently met with the rector of the University of El Salvador. Engineering education at this university costs 10 thousand dollars a year. We have 3-4 thousand. But we need to promote ourselves more actively, compare our and Western universities in terms of the level of education." - says RUDN Rector Vladimir Filippov.
Universities have difficulties in inviting foreign professors to our universities. In addition, it is difficult for domestic scientists to break into the pages of reputable international English language. Even if there is interesting research, not always our authors can competently "sell" their intellectual product.
Where else do we have vulnerable positions? For example, in the RUR rating there is an indicator "financial stability". This is the ratio of the budgetary funds of the university to the number of teachers, students, university expenses for research. in the American British universities huge endowment funds that provide high financial performance. We have almost no private endowment funds at universities, and too little budgetary funds are allocated.
According to experts, it is almost impossible to "move" the top ten international ratings. Assessment models are tailored to their education systems. But every year the number of our universities is growing, which are ready to compete with the world's leading universities. We are very successful in subject rankings, unlike other countries, we have many industry-specific universities.
There are 18 Russian universities in the top 1000 of the prestigious THE (Times Higher Education) ranking. MSU is in the top 200. MIPT and Tomsk Polytechnic University have excellent results - they have improved their positions. Phystech moved from group 301-350 to group 250-300, Tomsk Polytechnic University moved from 501-600 to group 301-350. The HSE improved its performance.
Among Russian universities, Moscow State University, MEPhI, Tomsk State University have the best indicators
The ranking also includes Kazan federal university, MEPhI, Novosibirsk State University, St. Petersburg State University, ITMO University, Tomsk State University, MISiS, Baumanka and others. In general, there are six fewer Russian universities in the ranking than in the past. Experts attribute this to increased competition among universities and a tough fight for reputation and students.
Another prestigious international QS ranking includes 24 Russian universities. Moscow State University has moved up 13 points and found itself in the top 100 of this prestigious ranking. Another 13 universities, including regional ones, have significantly improved their positions. Among them are Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Voronezh State Universities, Tomsk Polytechnic University.
To the final part Shanghai rating 12 Russian universities were included. These are Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, Tomsk State University, Novosibirsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, MEPhI, MISiS, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Ufa Aviation Technical University and Belgorod National research university.
Meanwhile
172 universities received the right to train foreigners and stateless persons at the preparatory departments and preparatory faculties at the expense of the state budget. Among them are Tomsk State University, St. Petersburg Mining University, Kuban State agricultural university, RUDN, HSE, MISiS, MEPhI, Stankin, Moscow State Pedagogical University and others.
Points: 100.000Country: USAHarvard University is one of the most famous universities in the USA and around the world, the oldest university in the USA. Located in Cambridge (part of the Boston metropolitan area), Massachusetts. 75 laureates Nobel Prize were associated with the university as students, faculty or staff. Harvard University ranks first in the country for the number of billionaires among alumni, and its library is the largest academic library in the United States and the third largest in the country. Harvard is part of a group of elite American universities - the Ivy League. 2. University of Chicago
Points: 98.749 Country: USA The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded in 1890. The University is one of the most famous and educational institutions due to its influence in the fields of science, society and politics. The university includes a college, various graduate schools, interdisciplinary committees, 6 institutes vocational training and institute continuing education. In addition to the humanities and sciences, the university is well known for its institutions. vocational education, including: Medical School. Pritzker School of Business Booth, Institute of Law, School of Social Services Administration, School of Public Policy. Harris and Theological Seminary. 3. Caltech
Points: 98.283Country: USACalifornia Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, one of the leading universities in the USA and one of the two most important, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in exact sciences and engineering. He also owns a laboratory jet propulsion, which launches most automatic spacecraft NASA. 31 Nobel Prize winners are connected with the Institute in one way or another. Of these, 17 graduates and 18 professors. 4. Imperial College London
Points: 97.668Country: United KingdomFrom 1907 to 2007 Imperial College was part of University of London. The branch of the college into an independent institution was timed to coincide with the centenary of its foundation and took place on July 8, 2007. The Imperial College is part of the "golden triangle", which is a group of the most elite British universities that also includes Oxford and Cambridge universities. Traditionally included in the lists of the most prestigious higher educational institutions. 5. Stanford University
Points: 96.919Country: USAStanford University- private university in the USA, one of the most authoritative and rating in the USA and in the world. Located near the city of Palo Alto (60 km south of San Francisco). Teaching is conducted at many faculties, including legal, medical, technical, music and others. The structure also includes various schools(as Stanford graduate School business) and research centers (like CCRMA). The university is located in Silicon Valley. Its alumni have founded companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, and Google. 6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Points: 96.790 Country: USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology - University and Research Center located in Cambridge (a suburb of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. MIT occupies a leading position in prestigious world university rankings, is an innovator in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, and its educational engineering programs, programs in the field of information technologies, Economics, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics by U.S. News & World Report, known for its ranking system of national universities, are recognized year after year as the best in the country. The institute is also renowned in many other fields including management, economics, linguistics, political science and philosophy. 7. Columbia University
Points: 95.544 Country: USA Columbia University is a private research university in New York, one of the most famous and prestigious universities United States, part of the elite Ivy League. Notable alumni of the university include five so-called Founding Fathers of the United States, 29 Oscar winners, 29 heads of state (including three US presidents), nine judges of the US Supreme Court. 104 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched at the university. The Columbia University School of Journalism awards one of the most prestigious journalism awards, the Pulitzer Prize. More than 100 university graduates have become its laureates. 8. Northwestern University
Points: 95.447Country: USANorthwestern University is a private research American university located in the northern suburbs of Chicago - the city of Evanston, Illinois. It is one of the oldest universities in Illinois. Northwestern University is the largest university in the US. The university is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university among the conference participants. 9. Princeton University
Points: 94.999Country: USAPrinceton University is a private research university, one of the oldest and famous universities in USA. It is one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The university is one of eight Ivy League universities and one of nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton University provides bachelor's and master's degrees in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and engineering. The university does not have schools of medicine, law, business, or divinity, but offers professional degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the School of Architecture. 10. Cambridge University
Points: 94.694Country: Great BritainThe University of Cambridge is a UK university, one of the oldest (second after Oxford) and the largest in the country. Educational and scientific work undergraduate and graduate students is organized in six so-called "schools" of the university. Each "school" is an administrative-thematic (problem) group of several faculties (a set of departments), research institutes, laboratories, and the like. Among people who are in one way or another connected with University of Cambridge, 88 Nobel laureates - according to this indicator, it occupies one of the first places among higher educational institutions in the world. eleven. University of Pennsylvania
Points: 94.521Country: USAThe University of Pennsylvania is a US private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is in the elite Ivy League. Founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin. The University of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest institutions of higher education and the first university in the United States, as well as one of 9 colonial colleges founded before the signing of the declaration of independence. University alumni include American poet Ezra Pound, British satirist Edward Jenkins, richest man planet Warren Buffett, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, many members of the US Congress, government members, state governors, city mayors, ambassadors, company presidents. 12. Oxford University
Points: 94.226Country: United KingdomBritish University in Oxford, England. One of the oldest universities in the world, the first English-speaking university in the British Isles. Though exact date the founding of the university is unknown, there is evidence that education took place there already in 1096. It is included in the group " ancient universities» Great Britain and Ireland, as well as in the elite Russell group of the best 24 universities in the UK. Training is paid. Oxford University occupies a leading position in the prestigious rankings of world universities. 13. Federal poly technical school Lausanne
Points: 93.688Country: SwitzerlandFederal polytechnic school Lausanne was founded in 1853 under the name ∎cole Sp∎ciale de Lausanne, and was attached as a technical faculty to state academy in 1869. Has status technical university since 1969 and is considered one of the most prestigious educational institutions in Europe. It is often compared to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. To start studying in the bachelor's degree, in contrast to the master's and doctoral studies, it is not required entrance exams, it is enough to have a certificate of complete secondary education (for example, a Swiss matura or a German entrant). 14. ETH Zurich
Points: 93.504Country: Switzerland The Technische Hochschule Zurich was founded on October 16, 1855 and is not only the most prestigious university in Switzerland, but also consistently ranked among top universities peace. Among the graduates and professors of the university there are 21 Nobel Prize winners, the most famous of which is Albert Einstein, who received the prize in physics in 1921. 15. Polytechnic School
Points: 93.499Country: FranceThe Polytechnic School is a famous high school for the training of engineers, founded by French scientists Gaspard Monge and Lazar Carnot in 1794. The Polytechnic School shares three study programs: the engineering cycle, master's and postgraduate studies.
Choosing a place for future studies is not always limited to educational institutions of the native country. In this article, we used QS ratings (Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings) and THE (Times Higher Education World university rankings) to tell you about the top 20 universities in the world for the academic year 2018/2019.
MIT (USA)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research institution where future specialists in the exact sciences and developers of advanced technologies study. MIT also has a liberal arts department and an arts and social sciences department, despite its technical profile.
Oxford University (UK)
One of the most legendary universities on our planet, approximately 25% of the students of which are foreigners who come from different parts of the world. The main profile of the university is the humanities, although the exact sciences, jurisprudence, medicine and art are also taught here.
University of Cambridge (UK)
The constant rival of Oxford, founded in the early 13th century by scholars who left it. It is considered one of the most conservative universities in the world and traditionally remains one of the richest. It graduates, first of all, specialists in the field of exact sciences and physicians (including future Nobel laureates), although it also has humanities faculties.
Stanford University (USA)
It is located in the heart of Silicon Valley and is known for achieving impressive results in very diverse fields. It graduates highly qualified specialists in the field of humanities, exact sciences, art, and sociology. Another distinguishing feature of this university is the encouragement of initiative and entrepreneurial orientation.
California Institute of Technology (USA)
Its main "trick" is scientific research. And not those whose results are sent "to the table", but research that contributes to progress and development modern science. Here they teach exact, humanitarian, social sciences. The Institute owns some of the best laboratories among all universities in the world.
Harvard University (USA)
This oldest university in the United States, taught by distinguished professors, including several dozen Nobel Prize winners. The university is also interesting for its diverse and numerous scholarship programs. Humanities, natural and exact sciences are taught here.
Imperial College London (UK)
Science, engineering and medicine are the main specializations of this university. Unlike many others educational institutions of this list, it does not have such a long history: the college was established in 1907. Nevertheless, over the past time, he has gained fame as one of the foremost technical universities peace.
University College London (UK)
From the moment of its foundation, the word "advanced" was assigned to it. Moreover, it is advanced in everything: once it was the first in London to begin accepting students of any gender and religion, and now it gives the world an impressive number of Nobel laureates. Humanities, natural sciences, exact sciences are taught here; many graduates become successful politicians.
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
ETH Zurich is one of the leading European universities specializing in engineering and natural sciences (although there are also humanities faculties). The university constantly conducts research, the results of which are subsequently implemented at enterprises of various profiles.
University of Chicago (USA)
A true intellectual center and one of the best research institutes in the world, it produces scientists who make history in the humanities, social sciences, engineering and medicine. He is also known for the strong law school that many of the representatives of the modern government controlled USA.
Princeton University (USA)
Once it was a college, and now it is one of the most prestigious independent universities America. The emphasis here is on research, as well as on the development of our own systems for teaching and learning future bachelors. The main directions are humanitarian and natural Sciences(including molecular biology).
Yale University (USA)
This is another prestigious independent research university that, like Princeton University, is in the Ivy League. Of all US universities, this is one of the most international (foreigners make up about 18% of all students). Here they teach engineering and applied sciences, medicine and health care, art, law, etc.
University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Once again an Ivy League member - hence a university that is world famous for its research. The difference of this particular university lies in the high proportion of interdisciplinary research, as well as in the implementation of international educational programs. From here come experts in the exact sciences, lawyers and politicians, sociologists and media workers.
Columbia University (USA)
The university itself is located in New York (it, by the way, is also part of the Ivy League), but it manages research and educational centers in Santiago, Paris, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Amman, Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi. The most famous graduates of the university are politicians, public figures and workers in the arts, although they teach different sciences here.
EPFL (Switzerland)
The Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne is another Swiss university, only it is located, in contrast to ETH Zurich, in Lausanne. This is again a university that specializes in the exact sciences, however, the faculties of biology and social sciences is here too. In its profile, it is quite close to the American MIT.
University of Toronto (Canada)
V North America it is a leading university, which is far ahead of other universities in terms of the quality of educational programs and research base. It is known for its luxurious library, as well as for the presence of a large number of faculties and an equally large number of graduates who have achieved success in various fields.
McGill University (Canada)
It may not be as large and multidisciplinary as the University of Toronto, but it is also very interesting in its own way. This is one of the most knowledge-intensive universities in the world, whose graduates make a significant contribution to the development of modern technologies.
Edinburgh University (UK)
The educational institution is located in Scotland and is famous for international research in the field of sociology, law, health, humanities, pedagogy, medicine and art. The history of the University of Edinburgh spans over four centuries.
University of Tokyo (Japan)
One of the most well-known universities country of the rising sun, a significant part of the students of which are foreigners. The most popular are its law and philology faculties, although the university operates in many areas. And, like any leading university of our time, it has modern research laboratories.
Australian National University (Australia)
Located in the capital of Australia, Canberra. Counts the best university country, has extensive facilities for conducting diverse research, and is especially famous for the Siding Spring Observatory, which is the largest on the entire continent.
These are only 20 universities that consistently get to the first lines of the rankings and are guaranteed to demonstrate excellent performance this year. academic year. There are a lot of worthy educational institutions in the world, and in which of them to get an education is only your choice.
