The NCS University Index 2025: Top 80 Global Universities Leading Biomedical Breakthroughs

Welcome to the The NCS University Index 2025：Global Top 80 Universities ranking. This comprehensive index is based on a rigorous bibliometric analysis of 10,063 research articles published across 66 top-tier journals within the prestigious Nature, Cell, and Science publishing groups in 2025. Selected from a global pool of 1,540 participating universities, these 80 institutions represent the absolute pinnacle of global biomedical research and scientific innovation.

Rank	University/Institution	Nature Index	Cell Index	Science Index	Totle Index	Country
1	Harvard University	366	127	92	585	USA
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	283	143	53	479	China
3	Stanford University	228	67	65	360	USA
4	Cornell University	177	61	38	276	USA
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	170	47	43	260	USA
6	University of Oxford	171	20	25	216	UK
7	University of Cambridge	149	25	36	210	UK
8	Tsinghua University	131	51	14	196	China
9	Peking University	131	46	18	195	China
10	University of Pennsylvania	119	42	29	190	USA
11	Yale University	113	46	28	187	USA
12	Zhejiang University	113	47	27	187	China
13	University of California, San Diego	110	31	31	172	USA
14	University of Washington	110	31	25	166	USA
15	Columbia University	111	32	19	162	USA
16	Fudan University	89	60	12	161	China
17	University of California, Berkeley	96	17	38	151	USA
18	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	70	60	14	144	China
19	University College London	100	21	23	144	UK
20	University of California System	94	16	29	139	USA
21	University of California, San Francisco	76	37	24	137	USA
22	University of California, Los Angeles	91	22	23	136	USA
23	University of Chicago	80	25	21	126	USA
24	University of Toronto	86	22	14	122	Canada
25	Sun Yat-sen University	55	57	10	122	China
26	Washington University in St. Louis	63	41	16	120	USA
27	Johns Hopkins University	75	15	30	120	USA
28	Imperial College London	70	17	15	102	UK
29	National University of Singapore	70	15	13	98	Singapore
30	University of Michigan	59	20	18	97	USA
31	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	41	44	8	93	USA
32	Technical University of Munich	63	16	10	89	Germany
33	University of Melbourne	51	22	15	88	Germany
34	Duke University	55	12	19	86	USA
35	University of Zurich	61	13	10	84	Switzerland
36	Northwestern University	51	14	17	82	USA
37	New York University	59	11	11	81	USA
38	ETH Zurich	49	13	17	79	Switzerland
39	University of Tokyo	42	11	25	78	Japan
40	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	55	17	5	77	USA
41	University of Colorado	50	10	17	77	USA
42	McGill University	54	8	10	72	Canada
43	University of Edinburgh	52	7	12	71	UK
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison	40	16	15	71	USA
45	Nanjing University	42	13	13	68	China
46	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	31	23	12	66	China
47	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	34	18	9	61	USA
48	University of Pittsburgh	31	12	17	60	USA
49	University of Manchester	41	6	10	57	UK
50	University of Science and Technology of China	41	12	3	56	China
51	Seoul National University	34	12	10	56	South Korea
52	King's College London	42	7	3	52	UK
53	University of Southern California	28	11	12	51	USA
54	Sichuan University	26	19	6	51	China
55	University of British Columbia	31	6	12	49	Canada
56	University of Queensland	36	6	6	48	Australia
57	Emory University	28	7	12	47	USA
58	Kyoto University	32	8	7	47	Japan
59	Boston University	25	7	14	46	USA
60	University of Geneva	29	9	7	45	Switzerland
61	Monash University	32	5	6	43	Australia
62	University of Minnesota	25	7	10	42	USA
63	University of Bristol	32	2	8	42	UK
64	University of Texas at Austin	25	5	8	38	USA
65	University of Sydney	30	4	3	37	Australia
66	Nanyang Technological University	27	3	6	36	Singapore
67	Vanderbilt University	18	8	7	33	USA
68	Rutgers University	24	3	5	32	USA
69	Capital Medical University	15	15	2	32	China
70	University of Utah	16	7	9	32	USA
71	University of Arizona	22	2	5	29	USA
72	University of Birmingham	22	4	3	29	UK
73	University of Glasgow	21	2	5	28	UK
74	University of Leeds	21	1	6	28	UK
75	University of California, Davis	18	4	4	26	USA
76	Yonsei University	19	4	3	26	Other
77	Central South University	11	8	4	23	China
78	University of California, Santa Barbara	11	3	8	22	USA
79	Osaka University	15	4	3	22	Japan
80	University of Rochester	10	7	4	21