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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 96.1 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 94.7 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 94.1 |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University | 92.5 |
| 5 | McGill University | 91 |
| 6 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 90.8 |
| 7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 90.7 |
| 8 | University of Copenhagen | 90.5 |
| 9 | Columbia University | 90.1 |
| 10 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 89.8 |
| 11 | UCL | 89.6 |
| 12 | Imperial College London | 89.1 |
| 13 | The University of Melbourne | 88.9 |
| 14 | University of Toronto | 88.8 |
| 15 | Duke University | 88.7 |
| 16 | University of Glasgow | 88.3 |
| 17 | University of British Columbia | 88.2 |
| 18 | McMaster University | 88.1 |
| =19 | Karolinska Institutet | 88 |
| =19 | Washington University in St. Louis | 88 |
| =21 | The University of Edinburgh | 87.7 |
| =21 | University of Pennsylvania | 87.7 |
| 23 | King's College London | 87.2 |
| 24 | The University of Manchester | 86.9 |
| =25 | The University of Sydney | 85.7 |
| =25 | The University of Tokyo | 85.7 |
| 27 | Northwestern University | 85.6 |
| 28 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 84.7 |
| 29 | University of Birmingham | 84.6 |
| 30 | The University of Queensland | 84.2 |
| =31 | Sorbonne University | 84 |
| =31 | University of Chicago | 84 |
| =33 | KU Leuven | 83.4 |
| =33 | New York University (NYU) | 83.4 |
| 35 | Boston University | 83.3 |
| 36 | University of Otago | 82.6 |
| 37 | University of Leeds | 82.5 |
| 38 | Loughborough University | 82.3 |
| =39 | ETH Zurich | 82.1 |
| =39 | University of Calgary | 82.1 |
| 41 | Monash University | 82 |
| 42 | University of California, San Francisco | 81.5 |
| =43 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 81.1 |
| =43 | University of Southern California | 81.1 |
| 45 | Yonsei University | 80.8 |
| 46 | University of Zurich | 80.2 |
| 47 | University of Liverpool | 80.1 |
| 48 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | 80 |
| 49 | The University of Auckland | 79.9 |
| =50 | Australian National University (ANU) | 79.7 |
| =50 | University of Bristol | 79.7 |
| =50 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 79.7 |
| 51-100 | Baylor College of Medicine | n/a |
| 51-100 | Cairo University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Case Western Reserve University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Charles University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | n/a |
| 51-100 | King Saud University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Maastricht University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Medical University of Vienna | n/a |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Peking University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Sapienza University of Rome | n/a |
| 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Technical University of Munich | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The Ohio State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Hong Kong | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Western Australia | n/a |
| 51-100 | Tsinghua University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Tufts University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Alberta | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Amsterdam | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Basel | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Bordeaux | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of California, Davis | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Dundee | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Exeter | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Florida | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Geneva | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Iowa | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Lausanne | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Milan | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota (System) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Missouri, Columbia | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Nottingham | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Ottawa | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Washington | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | n/a |
| 51-100 | Università di Padova | n/a |
| 51-100 | Université de Montréal | n/a |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Vanderbilt University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Western University | n/a |