International university rankings. Novosibirsk State University

Medical training varies from country to country. In the USA, medicine is studied at graduate school (that is, where upon completion you receive academic degree) after completing an undergraduate degree (after receiving a diploma higher education), which is not directly related to medicine. In the UK, students can enroll in clinical programs straight after school.

In any case, no matter where you study as a physician, obtaining almost all medical diplomas takes many years - much longer than diplomas not related to medicine. For this reason, before submitting documents for admission to medical university, it would be correct to choose the most worthy of them. For this purpose, Times Higher Education compiled the “Best medical universities World" 2018. In , teaching clinical, preclinical and health care courses from 50 countries.

5 Best Medical Universities in the World 2018

1. Oxford University

Medicine is divided into the stage of preclinical and clinical training. In the first years of training, students are taught theory with little or no direct interaction with patients. In subsequent years, they move into clinical training, 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 your studies to four years.The University of Oxford has two main libraries for medical and clinical studies.

Admission criteria

A level - A*AA grades in three A-levels exams (with the exception of Critical Thinking and General Studies) taken in the same academic year. Applicants must achieve at least a grade A in both chemistry and one of three subjects - biology, physics or mathematics. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE - 39 points and grades 7,6 and 6 in subjects taken at an advanced level, one of which must be chemistry and others optional from biology, physics and mathematics.

=2. Cambridge University

As with Oxford University, students can enroll at the undergraduate level. Competition for medicine in Cambridge - 6 applicants per place and a total of about 260 students are accepted. Half of Cambridge medical graduates will become general doctors and almost all will work for the BritishNational Health Service (free healthcare system in the UK).

Admission to medical school requires the highest grades in or.

Admission criteria

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 7,7 and 6 in subjects taken at an advanced level, one of which must be chemistry and others optional from biology, physics and mathematics.

=2. Harvard

Harvard Medical School has three missions: teaching, research, and clinical service. The school has 4 main teaching hospitals, all located in the Boston area. The Harvard curriculum is structured in such a way that training is underway from health related problems. The school also has a division that accepts only 30 applicants per year and is dedicated to biomedical research.

=4. Imperial College London

The medical program at Imperial College London offers a wide range of different teaching approaches, ranging from traditional theory lessons to innovative practical classes. From the very first trimester, unlike traditional British universities, students have the opportunity to have direct contact with patients. The six-year medical degree program also includes a Bachelor of Science degree. Like Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College devotes a lot of attention to scientific research with an emphasis not only on clinical practice, but also on research methodology.

The requirements for admission are quite high; most applicants received the highest grades in chemistry, biology and one other subject.

Admission criteria

A level - A*AA grades in three A-levels exams, where an A* grade 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 degree students who want to continue their medical studies. 7 Nobel laureates, 31 members of the National Scientific Academy and 42 members of the Institute of Medicine in at the moment teach medicine at the university. Scientists at Stanford Medical School are conducting research in various directions, including cancer, immunology, genetics, neuroscience and many others.

The best medical universities in the world - the first 50 universities

Position in the ranking	University	Country
1		United Kingdom
=2		United Kingdom
=2	Harvard University	USA
=4	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
=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	United Kingdom
=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	United Kingdom
=17	King's College London	United Kingdom
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	KU Leuven	Belgium
44	Vanderbilt University	USA
45	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=46	Monash University	Australia
=46	Technical University of Munich	Germany
48	University of Amsterdam	Holland
49	University of Minnesota	USA
50	Peking University	China

68 Russian universities included in the list compiled by the QS agency. This is an annual ranking of the strongest universities in five countries with rapidly developing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

All 10 Russian universities presented below entered the ranking, improving their performance in last year’s ranking. The top ten Russian universities were also selected taking into account the results they showed in the recent QS World Rankings.

1. Moscow State University named after. M.V. Lomonosov

The usually highly rated Russian university rose two places in the BRICS university rankings, ending up in fifth place, and in the ranking of the best universities in the world, it ranked 95th, up 13 places. Moscow State University was founded in 1775 and is one of the oldest universities in Russia. Today, about 47,000 students study here, 4,000 of whom are foreigners.

In the ranking of the best universities in the world for the quality of teaching subjects, compiled by QS, MSU entered the top 50 in 29 subjects (out of 46), including subjects such as linguistics, computer science, mathematics, physics and service.

2. Novosibirsk State University

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Having risen by 9 positions this year in the BRICS university rankings from 20th to 11th place, NSU also ranked 250th in the world ranking of universities. It is much younger than Moscow State University (founded in 1959), but has established itself as one of the best Russian universities. There are 7,000 students studying here, 20% of whom are foreigners.

3. St. Petersburg State University

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Moved up 7 points in the rankings, ranking 13th. In addition, he ranks 240th in the ranking best universities peace. The oldest of Russia's leading universities, St. Petersburg State University was founded in 1724 by Peter the Great as the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Over its almost three-century history, the university has educated 9 Nobel laureates and other notable figures, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin.

4. Tomsk State University

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Next in the review of the best universities in Russia is , which is on line 17 in the ranking of universities in the BRICS countries. Tomsk state university also ranked 323rd in the list of the best universities in the world. TSU is the oldest university in the Asian part of Russia, it was founded in 1878. TSU is active in international cooperation and maintains partnerships with more than 90 leading world universities, and also implements an increasing number of programs in English.

5. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (state university)

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Another university that improved its performance in the latest BRICS university rankings is , also known as Phystech. He rose 19 places and ranks 28th. MIPT is also in 335th place in the world ranking of universities. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology was founded in 1951, and in 2009 it was awarded the status of a national research university. Among the graduates and teachers of the Institute are Nobel laureates, cosmonauts, scientists and other prominent representatives of business and politics.

6. Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman

Baumanka - the oldest and largest technical university Russia. He gets top marks in the BRICS university rankings based on the “teacher-student ratio” criterion, and also ranks 12th in the rankings of universities based on reputation with employers. In addition to maintaining relationships with more than 70 international universities, MSUT im. Bauman closely cooperates with industrial, scientific, educational and cultural institutions.

7. National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"

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Another Russian university, which has risen noticeably in the rankings of universities in the BRICS countries, is . The university rose by 15 points and took 35th place, and in the ranking of world universities it is in 373rd place. NRNU MEPhI was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Ammunition. Today MEPhI has 21 branches in 20 cities of Russia with a total number of students over 38 thousand.

MEPhI strives to solve global problems of the 21st century in priority areas, including medicine, nuclear power, nanotechnology and ecology.

8. National Research Institute "Higher School of Economics"

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Having risen 23 steps in the ranking of universities in the BRICS countries for 2018, it is located in 39th place, and in the ranking of world universities - in 382nd place. This is the youngest university on our list (founded in 1992). About 31,900 students study here: the main part is in Moscow, the rest are in branches in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm.

HSE offers a number of programs in English, and foreign students can study freely by receiving government scholarships.

9. Moscow State Institute of International Relations

(university) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO) is considered one of the elite universities in Russia. It is in 40th place in the ranking of the best universities in the BRICS countries, and is ranked 373rd in the ranking of world universities. Henry Kissinger called MGIMO the “Russian Harvard” because many famous Russian politicians, economists and other representatives of the intellectual elite studied here.

MGIMO entered the Guinness Book of Records for the most large number taught here foreign languages- 53. However, the university was not included in the QS ranking for this subject, but was noted for the quality of teaching in the discipline “International Relations”.

10. Tomsk Polytechnic University

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The top 10 is completed by Russian universities, which took 49th place in the BRICS university rankings and 386th place in the world university rankings. TPU received one of the highest scores in the BRICS university rankings for the fact that 26% of the university's 14,100 students are foreigners.

Founded in 1896 as the Tomsk Technological Institute, TPU today includes seven research institutes, 72 laboratories, nuclear reactor and a business incubator.

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Points: 100,000 Country: USA Harvard University is one of the most famous universities in the USA and around the world, the oldest university in the USA. Located in the city of Cambridge (part of the Boston metropolitan area), Massachusetts. 75 Nobel Prize winners were associated with the university as students, faculty or staff. Harvard University ranks first in the country for the number of billionaire alumni, and its library is the largest academic library in the United States and the third largest in the country. Harvard is part of the group of elite American universities - the Ivy League. 2. University of Chicago

Points: 98.749 Country: USA Chicago University - private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded in 1890. The university is one of the most famous and prestigious institutions of higher education 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 the Institute of Continuing Education. In addition to humanitarian and natural sciences the university is well known for its institutes vocational education, including: Medical School named after. Pritzker School of Business Booth Institute of Law, School of Social Services Administration, School public policy them. Harris and Theological Seminary. 3. Caltech

Points: 98,283 Country: USA California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, one of the leading universities in the United States and one of the two most important, along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in the exact sciences and engineering. He also owns the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which runs most of the automatic spacecraft NASA. There are 31 Nobel Prize laureates associated with the institute in one way or another. Of these, 17 are graduates and 18 are professors. 4. Imperial College London

Points: 97.668 Country: Great Britain From 1907 to 2007 Imperial College was part of the University of London. The separation of the college into an independent institution was timed to coincide with the centenary of its founding and occurred on July 8, 2007. Imperial College is part of the “golden triangle”, which is a group of the most elite British universities, which also includes the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Traditionally included in the lists of the most prestigious higher educational institutions. 5. Stanford University

Points: 96.919 Country: USA Stanford University is a private university in the USA, one of the most authoritative and rated in the USA and in the world. Located near the city of Palo Alto (60 km south of San Francisco). Teaching is carried out in many faculties, including law, medicine, technology, music and others. The structure also includes various schools (such 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 is a university and research center located in Cambridge (a suburb of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. MIT occupies a leading position in prestigious rankings of world universities, is an innovator in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, and its educational engineering programs, programs in the field information technology, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics by U.S. News & World Report, known for its ranking system national universities, from year to year are recognized 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: 95.544Country: USA Columbia University is a private research university in New York, one of the most famous and prestigious universities in the United States, part of the elite Ivy League. Among the university's famous alumni are five so-called Founding Fathers of the United States, 29 Oscar winners, 29 heads of state (including three US presidents), and nine US Supreme Court justices. 104 Nobel laureates studied, taught or did research at the university. The Columbia University School of Journalism awards one of the most prestigious awards in the field of journalism, the Pulitzer Prize. More than 100 university graduates became its laureates. 8. Northwestern University

Points: 95.447 Country: USA Northwestern University is a private research American university located in the northern suburb of Chicago - Evanston, Illinois. It is one of the oldest universities in the state of Illinois. Northwestern University is the largest university in the United States. The university is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. 9. Princeton University

Points: 94,999 Country: USA Princeton University is a private research university, one of the oldest and most famous universities in the 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 offers bachelor's and master's degrees in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and technical sciences. The university does not have schools of medicine, law, business or theology, but does offer professional degrees through the School of Public and Social Sciences. international relations Woodrow Wilson School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Architecture. 10. Cambridge University

Points: 94.694 Country: Great Britain Cambridge University is a UK university, one of the oldest (second after Oxford) and largest in the country. Educational and scientific work undergraduate and graduate students are 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 the people connected in one way or another with the University of Cambridge, there are 88 Nobel laureates - according to this indicator, it ranks one of the first places among higher educational institutions in the world. 11. University of Pennsylvania

Points: 94,521 Country: USA The University of Pennsylvania is a private US research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is part of 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. Among the university's graduates are the American poet Ezra Pound, the British satirist Edward Jenkins, richest man planet Warren Buffett, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, many members of the US Congress, members of the government, state governors, city mayors, ambassadors, company presidents. 12. Oxford University

Points: 94.226 Country: Great Britain British University in Oxford, England. One of the oldest universities in the world, the first English-language university in the British Isles. Although the exact date of the founding of the university is unknown, there is evidence that education took place there as early as 1096. It is included in the group of “ancient universities” of 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 prestigious rankings of world universities. 13. Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne

Points: 93.688 Country: Switzerland The Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne was founded in 1853 under the name ∎cole Sp∎ciale de Lausanne, and was annexed as technical faculty To state academy in 1869. It has the status of a 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 begin studying at a bachelor's degree, unlike master's and doctoral studies, you do not need entrance exams, it is enough to have a certificate of complete secondary education (for example, a Swiss master's degree or a German abitur). 14. ETH Zurich

Points: 93.504 Country: Switzerland ETH Zurich was founded on October 16, 1855 and is not only the most prestigious university in Switzerland, but is also consistently ranked among the best universities in the world. Among the university's alumni and professors are 21 Nobel laureates, the most famous of whom is Albert Einstein, who received the prize in physics in 1921. 15. Ecole Polytechnique

Points: 93.499Country: France The École Polytechnique is a famous higher school for training engineers, founded by French scientists Gaspard Monge and Lazare Carnot in 1794. The École Polytechnique has three educational programs: engineering cycle, master's degree and postgraduate study.

Every person who wants to achieve success in life strives to get quality education. However, universities in our country, unfortunately, do not provide certificates at a level that allows you to quickly get one of the leading positions in profitable companies. Despite this, more and more of our compatriots are receiving education at the best universities in Russia, but some are trying their hand abroad. Of course, many cannot afford to pay for education, but many grants come to the rescue; if you win, you can study abroad for free. We have collected for you best options higher educational institutions in the ranking of the best universities in the world in 2016, so that you can choose exactly what you like.

10 University of Chicago (USA)

This educational institution has rich history: this is where we managed to get the first nuclear reaction, prove that oncology can be caused by genetic inheritance, confirm the benefits of reading for brain development. The university has more than 120 different research centers, whose services are used by large companies, so the prospect of staying to work here is very attractive, because you can repeat the feat of one of the 89 graduates who became Nobel Prize laureates. The modern foreign policy doctrine of the United States of America was also developed here.

9 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)

The main marketing trump card possessed by the university, which ranks ninth in the ranking of the best universities in the world in 2016, is the presence in the list of graduates of Albert Einstein, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. Among the features are also unique developments, including the Large Hadron Collider, the activities of which are supervised by STI. This speaks extremely highly qualified specialists, thanks to which they have the opportunity to participate in the cutting-edge research of our time.

8 Imperial College London (UK)

This university gave the world many revolutionaries in science, because it was its graduates who identified the beneficial properties of vitamin C. One of the outstanding students of the college was Alexander Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, which allowed humanity to effectively fight infectious diseases. The clip also contains 15 Nobel laureates, including the man who gave the world the hologram. If you have a predisposition to study technical or natural sciences, then Imperial College will be the best option.

7 Princeton University (USA)

You'll be amazed at the number of activities Princeton University has, which ranks seventh in the top ten universities in the world for 2016. Regardless of the chosen industry, he has something to be proud of. It was here that the speed of light was exceeded, game theory was developed, which is the basis of a separate discipline within the framework of economic science, and advanced developments were made in the field of energy saving, allowing humanity to avoid raw materials and energy crises in the future. The most famous graduate is John Nash, the first person who was able to recognize the presence of schizophrenia and successfully cope with it. This inspired American directors to create a biographical film about outstanding mathematics.

6 Harvard University (USA)

There are probably no people in the civilized world who have not heard at least once in their lives about Harvard, which gave the world 8 US presidents, including John Kennedy and Barack Obama, many cinema stars, the founder of the era of personal computers, Bill Gates, who is the richest person in the world for 2016 and the creator of the world's first social network(Facebook), which has about two billion users today. Among the immigrants former USSR There are also several prominent figures who graduated from Harvard: Yuri Shevchuk, Orest Subtelny, Grigory Grabovich. Anyone who wants a bright future for their child strives to provide him with an education at this university.

5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

Among the top five best institutions in the world in 2016 is the second most important technical university modernity. It is here that ideas that are constantly being introduced into everyday life, such as cybernetics and artificial intelligence. There are a lot of laboratories at MIT, including one that develops the latest military equipment for the United States Army. The total teaching staff numbers about one and a half thousand professors, and of the eleven thousand students, 15% are foreign citizens.

4 University of Cambridge (UK)

The ranking, which includes the best universities in the world 2016, cannot do without Cambridge. This educational institution is the world leader among graduates with the Nobel Prize, there are 92 of them, most of whom made revolutionary discoveries in the field of exact sciences and natural history. Thanks to its long history, Cambridge can also boast outstanding physicists - Newton and Bacon. It is worth noting that leading experts in the field nuclear physics work here, among the professors were also Ernest Rutherford, who proved the existence of a nucleus in an atom with a positive charge and electrons around it with a negative charge and the creator of the world's first atomic bomb– Robert Oppenheimer.

3 Stanford University (USA)

The university that opens the top three is the cradle of the modern computer industry, because on its basis a lot of brands were born, which are now one of the largest companies in the world. This is where I studied Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, and it was solely thanks to the ability of teachers to adequately respond to the innovative developments of their own students that he was able to achieve such success. Stanford cordially provided scientific laboratories for MasterCard, Facebook, Xerox, which allowed the IT industry giants to revolutionize everyday life, greatly simplifying it.

2 California Institute of Technology (USA)

Despite its small size compared to other contenders, it had a decisive influence on the United States space program, making possible the launch of the Hubble telescope and the Apollo lunar program. Every tenth graduate is awarded a medal for innovation from the government; the majority secure a place in the Federal Academy of Sciences by the age of thirty. 17 students were awarded Nobel Prize, all in the field of physics or mathematics. No other educational institution can boast of such influence on human space exploration as KTI.

1 University of Oxford (UK)

Oxford is the gold medalist of the Top 10 rating and this is the most best university world 2016. This university serves as an example of a classical university, where humanitarian, technological and medical disciplines are equally developed. It was here that the first theories about the origin of the Universe appeared, the trajectories of galaxies were calculated and research expeditions to Mars were coordinated. Interesting fact It is also the presence of its own observatory, whose employees predicted the collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda, and also discovered a planet that consists entirely of glass.