U.S. News & World Report has just released their latest surveys for Graduate and Medical Schools, and the results are being made public today.
The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division moved up two places to No. 11 — with paleontology, ecology & evolution, and cell biology ranking nationally — in the rankings of the country’s best biological sciences doctoral programs for 2023. U.S. News ranks the nation’s biological sciences programs every four years. Of the 290 institutions rated this year, the BSD’s overall doctoral programs tied for No. 11 with Columbia University, Cornell University, and Duke University, up two places from four years ago.
UChicago’s paleontology program, which draws from the interdepartmental and inter-institutional Committee on Evolutionary Biology, ranked second in the country behind Yale after placing No. 1 in 2019 and 2015. The ecology & evolution program ranked No. 10, down from No. 8 four years ago, and the cell biology program, which encompasses elements of several basic science departments, ranked for the first time at No. 18, in a tie with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Also today, U.S. News published new annual ratings of the nation’s research-intensive medical schools. Of the 192 medical schools surveyed, Pritzker School of Medicine tied with the University of California-San Diego for the 20th spot, with the primary care program placing No. 30, internal medicine No. 22, and OB-GYN ranked for the first time at No. 19. Last year, Pritzker was ranked No. 17 among research medical schools, No. 34 in primary care, and No. 21 in internal medicine. Pritzker also ranked among the top ten in the country for average National Institutes of Health funding per faculty member ($300,610).
Selectivity measures in admissions, which include undergraduate median GPA, median MCAT, and acceptance rate, remain amongst the highest of all schools in the survey. Pritzker is tied in this most recent survey with Johns Hopkins University as the 4th most selective school in the country. The MCAT remained at 521, or 99th percentile median. The median undergraduate GPA for matriculants remained at 3.92, tied for 6th in the nation, and the acceptance rate lowered to 3.6% from 4.1% in the prior year.
U.S. News also released medical school student diversity metrics for the second time this year, providing the percentage of students considered underrepresented in medicine within each student body. Although this metric was not considered for rankings, Pritzker improved to No. 9 from No. 11 overall for medical school diversity, first among the top 20 schools. Notably, only four of the top 20 research medical schools achieved a top 20 score for diversity: Pritzker (No. 9), University of California-San Francisco (No. 11), University of California-Los Angeles (No. 14), and Duke University (No. 16).
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