University of California, San Francisco — World ranking

Ranked in the world

University of California, San Francisco is ranked 3rd in the world for Clinical Medicine.

Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Clinical Medicine, 2025

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University of California, San Francisco's placement across the international ranking systems recorded by the Index. The headline figure above is the strongest of these.

Ranking	Publisher	World rank
ARWU GRAS 2025Headlinein the world for Clinical Medicine	ShanghaiRanking Consultancy	3
ARWU GRAS 2025in the world for Medical Technology	ShanghaiRanking Consultancy	3
NTU 2025in the world for Neuroscience & Behavior	National Taiwan University	3
ARWU GRAS 2025in the world for Biological Sciences	ShanghaiRanking Consultancy	4
NTU 2025in the world for Clinical Medicine	National Taiwan University	6
NTU 2025in the world for Molecular Biology & Genetics	National Taiwan University	6
NTU 2025in the world for Immunology	National Taiwan University	7
NTU 2025in the world for Clinical Medicine	National Taiwan University	7
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Medical and Health Sciences	METU (URAP Lab)	7
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Public, Environmental & Occupational Health	URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University	8
SCImago 2025in the world for Medicine	SCImago Research Group	8
NTU 2025in the world for Life Sciences	National Taiwan University	9
Nature 2025in the world for health sciences	Nature / Springer Nature	10
NTU 2025in the world for Microbiology	National Taiwan University	14
NTU 2025in the world for Biology & Biochemistry	National Taiwan University	17
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Nursing	URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University	18
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Psychology and Cognitive Sciences	METU (URAP Lab)	18
SCImago 2026in the world for Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	SCImago Research Group	20
NTU 2025	National Taiwan University	21
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Biological Sciences	METU (URAP Lab)	22
Leiden 2025in the world for biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)	CWTS, Leiden University	23
Leiden 2025in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)	Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University	26
SCImago 2026in the world for Chemistry	SCImago Research Group	27
SCImago 2026in the world for Physics and Astronomy	SCImago Research Group	27
Nature 2025in the world for biological sciences	Nature / Springer Nature	30
NTU 2025in the world for Social Sciences, General	National Taiwan University	31
Leiden 2025in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)	CWTS, Leiden University	35
Leiden 2025in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)	Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University	36
NTU 2025in the world for Psychiatry/Psychology	National Taiwan University	40
SCImago 2026	SCImago Research Group	42
Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025)	Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC	42
NTU 2025in the world for Pharmacology & Toxicology	National Taiwan University	47
SCImago 2025in the world for Psychology	SCImago Research Group	49
URAP 2025-2026	URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University	52
SCImago 2026in the world for Dentistry	SCImago Research Group	54
NTU 2025in the world for Social Sciences	National Taiwan University	58
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Human Movement & Sports Sciences	URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University	66
Nature 2025	Nature / Springer Nature	66
SCImago 2026in the world for Arts and Humanities	SCImago Research Group	67
SCImago 2025in the world for Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics	SCImago Research Group	67
THE-Rep 2025in the world for reputation	Times Higher Education	83
Leiden 2025	Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University	86
Time 2026	Time / Statista	118
SCImago 2026in the world for Veterinary	SCImago Research Group	126
Leiden 2025in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)	CWTS, Leiden University	161
SCImago 2025in the world for Engineering	SCImago Research Group	161
URAP 2024-2025in the world for Studies in Human Society	URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University	164
SCImago 2025in the world for Agricultural and Biological Sciences	SCImago Research Group	185
SCImago 2025in the world for Social Sciences	SCImago Research Group	205
Leiden 2025in the world for mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers)	Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University	219
SCImago 2025in the world for Computer Science	SCImago Research Group	311
NTU 2025in the world for Engineering	National Taiwan University	404
SCImago 2026in the world for Environmental Science	SCImago Research Group	454
NTU 2025in the world for Natural Sciences	National Taiwan University	551

Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.