U.S. News and World Report lists the following medical schools as the leading five institutions in the United States.
Here are 30 things to know:
Harvard University (Boston) — Ranked #1
1. Barbara J. McNeil, MD, serves as the medical school's acting dean. She is a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital, also in Boston.
2. Harvard Medical School has 151 current National Academy of Medicine members and 69 current National Academy of Sciences members.
3. Harvard Medical School has had 15 researchers that have shared in nine Nobel Prizes for work they completed while at the medical school.
4. There are 11,366 faculty members on staff.
5. Harvard Medical Schools has 723 students pursuing medical degrees and 848 students pursuing their doctorate of philosophy.
6. For the 2016 to 2017 school year, tuition reached $58,050 and average fees reached $4,311.
Stanford (Calif.) University — Ranked #2
7. Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is the dean of Stanford Medicine. At the university, Dr. Minor is a professor of otolaryngology, bioengineering and neurobiology.
8. Stanford has 1,948 faculty members, 136 of which are in the basic science department and 1,812 of which are in clinical science.
9. The school has 383 medical degree candidates and 786 candidates pursuing their doctorate of philosophy.
10. The school has 31 members of the National Academy of Medicine and 42 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
11. The school has seven Noble Prize winners.
12. The school's full-time tuition totaled $52,491 for the 2016 to 2017 school year.
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) — Tied at #3
13. Paul B. Rothman, MD, is currently the medical school's dean. He is also the vice president of medicine of The Johns Hopkins University and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. As dean and CEO, Dr. Rothman is charged with overseeing the school of medicine and John Hopkins Health System, which includes six hospitals, hundreds of community physicians and a self-funded health plan.
14. John Hopkins has more than 2,800 full-time faculty members and more than 1,200 part-time faculty members.
15. More than 1,200 students are pursuing their medical and doctoral degrees at Johns Hopkins.
16. Thirty-six people with connections to John Hopkins have received a Nobel Prize, including Carol Gredier, PhD, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009. Dr. Gredier is a Daniel Nathans Professor and director of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
17. In May 2016, the National Academy of Sciences named four new John Hopkins University faculty members to the organization, bringing the medical schools' total count to 33 members. In October 2016, the National Academy of Medicine named Dr. Rothman as a new member.
18. For the 2016 to 2017 school year, tuition totaled $50,160.
University of California San Francisco — Tied at #3
19. Talmadge E. King Jr., MD, is the dean of UCSF School of Medicine. He joined UCSF in 1997 as chief of medical services at San Francisco General Hospital and has served as chair of the UCSF department of medicine for the past 10 years.
20. On staff, there are 2,337 full-time faculty and 157 part-time staff members.
21. UCSF has 647 total students pursing their medical degrees and 757 students seeking their doctorate of philosophy.
22. UCSF has five Nobel Prize winners, including Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD. Dr. Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 for his research on reprogramming mature cells in mice to become pluripotent stem cells.
23. UCSF has 83 National Academy of Medicine members and 40 National Academy of Sciences members.
24. Tuition totals $37,244 for in-state residents and $49,589 for out-of-state residents.
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) — Tied at #3
25. J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, has served as the dean of Penn's School of Medicine since July 2011. Previously, he was the vice president of medical affairs at Chicago-based Northwestern University.
26. The school has more than 5,200 faculty and staff members.
27. In 2016, Penn Medicine had 775 students seeking their medical degrees and 594 students pursuing their doctorate of philosophy.
28. Recent Nobel Prize Winners affiliated with The University of Pennsylvania include Robert J. Shiller, PhD. Dr. Schiller was on staff at University of Pennsylvania from 1974 until 1982. Dr. Shiller won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013.
29. In 2016, National Academy of Medicine elected Martha A.Q. Curley, PhD, RN, to the organization. Dr. Curley is a professor of anesthesia and critical care at the medical school. National Academy of Sciences named Amita Sehgal, PhD, to the organization this year. She is the John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience and director of Perelman School of Medicine's chronobiology program.
30. Tuition totals $52,210 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.