We offer an overview of TOP-100 best universities in the world with the study of anatomy and physiology according to the QS World University Rankings for international students. Bachelor's, Master's programs in anatomy, physiology are focused on the study of the structure of the body, its functions. They prepare for various fields of medicine: neurophysiologist, cardiology, biomedical sciences.
- Anatomy is a field of medical sciences that deals with the identification, description of structures, relationships between parts of the body, studying anatomy, students learn about the basic systems of the body.
- Physiology as a course of medical sciences studies how the body works, chemistry, physics, underlying some basic functions of the body, from how molecules behave in cells, to how organ systems work together. A proper understanding of physiology helps to understand what happens in a healthy body during illness.
The course of anatomy and physiology gives in-depth knowledge about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of diseases, their impact on various organs of the body. The course also touches on subjects such as cell cloning, genetic engineering, bioinformatics.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Anatomy & Physiology
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | University of Oxford | 96,4 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 94,9 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 94,2 |
| 4 | Stanford University | 94,0 |
| 5 | Columbia University | 92,8 |
| 6 | The University of Sydney | 92,7 |
| 7 | McGill University | 92,2 |
| 8 | UCL | 91,8 |
| 9 | Duke University | 91,5 |
| 10 | University of British Columbia | 91,4 |
| 11 | University of Toronto | 90,8 |
| 12 | The University of Melbourne | 89,9 |
| =13 | University of California Los Angeles UCLA | 89,4 |
| =13 | University of Copenhagen | 89,4 |
| 15 | University of Glasgow | 88,9 |
| 16 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 88,6 |
| 17 | King's College London | 88,3 |
| 18 | The University of Edinburgh | 88,0 |
| =19 | The University of Western Australia | 87,5 |
| =19 | University of Pennsylvania | 87,5 |
| 21 | Northwestern University | 87,0 |
| 22 | New York University (NYU) | 86,8 |
| =23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 86,5 |
| =23 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 86,5 |
| 25 | Imperial College London | 86,4 |
| 26 | Washington University in St. Louis | 86,3 |
| 27 | The University of Tokyo | 86,2 |
| 28 | Sorbonne University | 85,8 |
| 29 | University of Otago | 85,4 |
| 30 | The University of Manchester | 84,8 |
| 31 | University of Washington | 83,3 |
| 32 | University of Florida | 83,1 |
| 33 | University of Calgary | 83,0 |
| 34 | Peking University | 82,9 |
| 35 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 82,7 |
| 36 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 82,6 |
| 37 | University of Oslo | 82,5 |
| 38 | Kyoto University | 82,4 |
| 39 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 82,3 |
| =40 | The University of Queensland | 82,2 |
| =40 | University of Birmingham | 82,2 |
| 42 | Zhejiang University | 82,1 |
| 43 | McMaster University | 81,7 |
| 44 | The University of Auckland | 81,5 |
| =45 | Tsinghua University | 81,4 |
| =45 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 81,4 |
| 47 | The University of Adelaide | 81,3 |
| =48 | The University of Hong Kong | 81,2 |
| =48 | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | 81,2 |
| =48 | University of Zurich | 81,2 |
| =48 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | 81,2 |
| 51-100 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | |
| 51-100 | Baylor College of Medicine | |
| 51-100 | Boston University | |
| 51-100 | Emory University | |
| 51-100 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | |
| 51-100 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | |
| 51-100 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | |
| 51-100 | KU Leuven | |
| 51-100 | Loughborough University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | |
| 51-100 | Newcastle University | |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 51-100 | Technical University of Munich | |
| 51-100 | Tehran University of Medical Sciences | |
| 51-100 | The Australian National University | |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | |
| 51-100 | The Ohio State University | |
| 51-100 | The University of Exeter | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | Tohoku University | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Chile | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | |
| 51-100 | Università di Padova | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | Universität Hamburg | |
| 51-100 | Université de Montréal | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of Alberta | |
| 51-100 | University of Basel | |
| 51-100 | University of Bristol | |
| 51-100 | University of California, Davis | |
| 51-100 | University of Colorado Boulder | |
| 51-100 | University of Geneva | |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | |
| 51-100 | University of Iowa | |
| 51-100 | University of Leeds | |
| 51-100 | University of Liverpool | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | |
| 51-100 | University of Ottawa | |
| 51-100 | University of Southern California | |
| 51-100 | University of Tsukuba | |
| 51-100 | University of Utah | |
| 51-100 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 51-100 | Vanderbilt University | |
| 51-100 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | |
| 51-100 | Western University | |
