list of Top 25 universities with top-ranked medical studies departments, globally, as per the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings 2022.
| QS World University Rankings 2022 | University/ Institute | Country |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 6 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 7 | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Yale University | United States |
| 10 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 12 | Karolinska Institutet | Sweden |
| 13 | University of California, San Francisco | United States |
| 14 | Columbia University | United States |
| 15 | University of Pennysylvania | United States |
| 16 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
| 19 | University of Washington | United States |
| 20 | The Univesity of Melbourne | Australia |
| 21 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 22 | McGill University | Canada |
| 23 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 24 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 25 | London School of Hygeine & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom |
| 25 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |