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Best for Medicine (MBBS / MD)

Becoming a doctor. Rules differ sharply by country: in the USA and Canada medicine is a graduate degree and rarely open to international students; UK and Ireland take Class 12 students; many Indian students choose MBBS abroad under NMC rules. Read the MBBS-abroad guide first.

What you would study

Bachelor's: MBBS / MBChB (UK, Ireland, Australia, Asia); MD after a bachelor's (USA)
Master's / PhD: MD / MS residency, MSc, MPH
Class 12 stream: PCB
Careers: Explore Medicine (MBBS / MD) careers →

Exams you may need

For bachelor's: NEET-UG (required by NMC for Indian students going abroad) · UCAT (UK, Australia) · IELTS/TOEFL
For master's: USMLE (USA) · PLAB / UKMLA (UK)

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Read first: MBBS abroad — NMC rules for Indian students. A foreign medical degree that breaks them cannot be used to practise in India.

Ranked for Clinical Medicine

ShanghaiRanking GRAS 2025

Table Country 500 universities

#1Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts, United States · World #1 · UG fees ~₹59.6 lakh/yrAdmission guide #2University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · World #14 · UG fees ~₹65.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #3University of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA, United States · World #21 #4The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, Texas, United States · World #86Admission guide #5Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland, United States · World #19 · UG fees ~₹62.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide #6University of CambridgeCambridge, England, United Kingdom · World #4 · UG fees ~₹39.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide #7University of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles, California, United States · World #16 · UG fees ~₹47.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide #8Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina, United States · World #46 · UG fees ~₹65.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #9University of OxfordOxford, England, United Kingdom · World #6Admission guide #10Imperial College LondonLondon, England, United Kingdom · World #26Admission guide #11University of PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · World #88 · UG fees ~₹41.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide #12Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland, OR, United States · World 201–300 #13University of WashingtonSeattle, Washington, United States · World #17 · UG fees ~₹41.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #14University of TorontoToronto, Ontario, Canada · World #25 · UG fees ~₹44.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #15The Chinese University of Hong KongSha Tin District, Hong Kong · World 101–150 · UG fees ~₹28.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide #16Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia, United States · World 101–150 · UG fees ~₹61.6 lakh/yrAdmission guide #17University College LondonLondon, England, United Kingdom · World #14Admission guide #18Heidelberg UniversityHeidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · World #51Admission guide #19The University of MelbourneParkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · World #38Admission guide #20Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, MinnesotaRochester, Minnesota, United States · World 101–150 · UG fees ~₹3.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide #21Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, Massachusetts, United States · World #3 · UG fees ~₹63.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #22Stanford UniversityStanford, California, United States · World #2 · UG fees ~₹64.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #23Columbia UniversityNew York, NY, United States · World #8 · UG fees ~₹68.8 lakh/yr #24King's College LondonLondon, England, United Kingdom · World #61Admission guide #25University of Michigan, Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI, United States · World #33 · UG fees ~₹58.4 lakh/yr #26University of California, San DiegoLa Jolla, San Diego, California, United States · World #20 · UG fees ~₹48.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #27University of LeicesterLeicester, United Kingdom · World 301–400Admission guide #28Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT, United States · World #11 · UG fees ~₹69.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #29Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois, United States · World #31 · UG fees ~₹65.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #30Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, New York, United States · World 101–150Admission guide #31Rockefeller UniversityNew York City, New York, United States · World #29Admission guide #32Université Paris CitéParis, France · World #60 · UG fees ~₹3.2 lakh/yrAdmission guide #33Ohio State University, ColumbusColumbus, Ohio, United States · World #83 · UG fees ~₹45.4 lakh/yrAdmission guide #34Karolinska InstitutetSolna Municipality, Sweden · World #50Admission guide #34University of ChicagoChicago, IL, United States · World #10 · UG fees ~₹67.7 lakh/yrAdmission guide #36University of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah, United States · World 151–200 · UG fees ~₹31.5 lakh/yrAdmission guide #37Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY, United States · World #12 · UG fees ~₹70.8 lakh/yrAdmission guide #38University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, United States · World 201–300 · UG fees ~₹57 lakh/yr #39Washington University in St LouisSt. Louis, Missouri, United States · World #26 · UG fees ~₹63 lakh/yrAdmission guide #40KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium · World #76 #41New York UniversityNew York, NY, United States · World #28 · UG fees ~₹60.2 lakh/yr #42University of NottinghamNottingham, United Kingdom · World 101–150 · UG fees ~₹33.3 lakh/yrAdmission guide #43The University of EdinburghEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · World #37Admission guide #44Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX, United States · World 201–300 #45Monash UniversityClayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · World #76Admission guide #46University of Colorado at DenverUnited States · World 201–300 #47University of GlasgowGlasgow, United Kingdom · World 101–150 · UG fees ~₹35.9 lakh/yrAdmission guide #48McMaster UniversityHamilton, Ontario, Canada · World 101–150Admission guide #49University of SydneyCamperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · World #72 · UG fees ~₹33.1 lakh/yrAdmission guide #50McGill UniversityMontreal, Quebec, Canada · World #76Admission guide

Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 — Clinical Medicine. Beyond the top 100 ranks are published in bands.

Where Medicine (MBBS / MD) leads

careers, and the same path in India

Careers it opens

Every Medicine (MBBS / MD) career — pay, skills, a week in the life →

Or study it in India

Allied Health Sciences (MLT, Radiology, OT Technology, Optometry and more) · After 12th
MBBS · After 12th
MD / MS (and DNB) · After graduation
DM / MCh / DrNB (super-specialty medicine and surgery) · After master's
Paramedical certificate after Class 10 · After 10th
B.Sc Nursing · After 12th

Every route in India after 10th, 12th and graduation →

Where this comes from

Ranks are copied, with their year, from ShanghaiRanking's ShanghaiRanking ARWU 2025 and its Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 — LLOS does not rank universities. Addresses, websites and locations come from Wikidata; US numbers from the US College Scorecard. Admission details and country rules were read from each university's and government's own pages — every profile lists its sources and the date they were checked.

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