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Budding doctors, this one’s for you. Times Higher Education (THE) has just unveiled its subject-specific university rankings for 2026 and it says that the world’s best uni for studying medical and health subjects is right here in the UK.
The University of Oxford is officially the greatest place on the planet for studying medicine, dentistry, nursing and other healthcare disciplines right now. That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise – it’s held the top spot for the past 10 years running.
THE is one of the most rigorous and well-respected uni rankings out there. For this particular ranking, its team of data experts crunched the numbers from more than 1,000 institutions across the globe. Medical and health departments across the globe were given scores out of 100 in five different categories – teaching, research environment, research quality, ability to help industry with innovation, and international outlook – then given an overall score.
Oxford was awarded scores above 90 out of 100 in all five categories (including a perfect 100 out of 100 for industry) and achieved 94.7 overall. THE points out that Oxford’s medical sciences division is so big that if it was a university in its own right, it would be the fourth largest in the UK.
Three other British universities made it into the top 10 in the world for medicine. The University of Cambridge ranked second with an overall score of 93.5, Imperial College London came fourth with 91.3 out of 100 and UCL secured eighth place with a score of 88.4.
THE also named Oxford the best uni on the planet full stop. But, again, that’s not much of a shocker. Oxford has been crowned the number one university in the world every year since 2017. As well as medicine, THE reckons that Oxford is currently best in the world for computer science and second in the world for both business and economics and sociology.
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