We present a list of the best universities in the field of medical personnel according to the QS World University Rankings. These universities have won international recognition in this area due to the quality of programs, developed infrastructure and experienced teaching staff.
This rating agency compiles rankings of higher education institutions, taking into account many quantitative and qualitative parameters. For example, they analyze the number of foreign students, the ratio of students per teacher, the citation index. All this makes the agency one of the most authoritative publications and becomes a reliable assistant to students who are puzzled by the search for a suitable university.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Nursing
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania | 97,7 |
| 2 | King's College London | 97,2 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 92,8 |
| 4 | University of Washington | 91,6 |
| 5 | University of Toronto | 89,9 |
| 6 | University of Manchester | 89,4 |
| 7 | University of Alberta | 89,2 |
| 8 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 89,1 |
| 9 | Yale University | 88,8 |
| 10 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 88,7 |
| =11 | Columbia University | 87,9 |
| =11 | University of Southampton | 87,9 |
| 13 | University of British Columbia | 87,6 |
| =14 | Duke University | 87,5 |
| =14 | Sydney University | 87,5 |
| 16 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 87,4 |
| 17 | University of California, San Francisco | 87,3 |
| 18 | University of California Los Angeles | 87,0 |
| 19 | Karolinska Institutet | 86,9 |
| 20 | National University of Singapore | 86,8 |
| 21 | Monash University | 86,7 |
| =22 | Emory University | 86,5 |
| =22 | New York University | 86,5 |
| 24 | University of Technology, Sydney | 86,1 |
| 25 | Taipei Medical University | 86,0 |
| 26 | Trinity College Dublin | 85,9 |
| 27 | The University of Melbourne | 85,8 |
| 28 | University of Pittsburgh | 85,5 |
| 29 | Griffith University | 85,3 |
| 30 | KU Leuven | 84,8 |
| 31 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 84,6 |
| 32 | University College Cork | 84,5 |
| 33 | McMaster University | 84,2 |
| =34 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | 83,9 |
| =34 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 83,9 |
| 36 | University of Turku | 83,7 |
| 37 | The University of Queensland | 83,3 |
| =38 | University of Leeds | 83,0 |
| =38 | University of Nottingham | 83,0 |
| 40 | The University of Hong Kong | 82,7 |
| 41 | Deakin University | 82,6 |
| =42 | Pennsylvania State University | 82,2 |
| =42 | The University of Edinburgh | 82,2 |
| =44 | Australian Catholic University | 82,1 |
| =44 | La Trobe University | 82,1 |
| =44 | McGill University | 82,1 |
| =44 | Ohio State University | 82,1 |
| 48 | The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) | 81,7 |
| 49 | Western Sydney University | 81,6 |
| 50 | Case Western Reserve University | 81,5 |
| 51-100 | Aarhus University | |
| 51-100 | Boston University | |
| 51-100 | Cardiff University | |
| 51-100 | Chung-Ang University (CAU) | |
| 51-100 | Curtin University | |
| 51-100 | Flinders University | |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | |
| 51-100 | George Washington University | |
| 51-100 | Ghent University | |
| 51-100 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | |
| 51-100 | Lund University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University | |
| 51-100 | Peking Union Medical School | |
| 51-100 | Peking University | |
| 51-100 | Queen's University at Kingston | |
| 51-100 | Queen's University Belfast | |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | Sichuan University | |
| 51-100 | Sultan Qaboos University | |
| 51-100 | The University of Adelaide | |
| 51-100 | The University of Auckland | |
| 51-100 | The University of Exeter | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | Ulster University | |
| 51-100 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | Basel University | |
| 51-100 | University of Birmingham | |
| 51-100 | University of Calgary | |
| 51-100 | University of Eastern Finland | |
| 51-100 | University of Galway | |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | |
| 51-100 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | |
| 51-100 | University of Iowa | |
| 51-100 | University of Jordan | |
| 51-100 | University of Limerick | |
| 51-100 | University of Miami | |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | |
| 51-100 | University of Navarra | |
| 51-100 | University of Otago | |
| 51-100 | University of Ottawa | |
| 51-100 | University of South Australia | |
| 51-100 | University of Surrey | |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 51-100 | University of Virginia | |
| 51-100 | University of Wollongong | |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | |
