<p>Please rank in order of best research for Medicine and then in opportunities in research with surrounding area.</p>
<p>Rice
JHU
Columbia
Cornell
Pitt
Georgetown</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you are interested in all medical research then you would want to consider things like total NIH budget for each of these institutions -> Johns Hopkins clearly gets the most with something like 600 million per year, whereas somewhere like Rice gets 14 million per year. This is the program available on the NIH website [NIH</a> Awards by Location and Organization - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)](<a href=“http://report.nih.gov/award/organizations.cfm]NIH”>http://report.nih.gov/award/organizations.cfm)</p>
<p>You might also want to consider things like industrial research or governmental research in areas surrounding these specific universities. For instance, Columbia is in an urban area with possibilities for working at biotech or pharma. Georgetown is close to the NIH where there might be the potential for intramural research programs.</p>
<p>Finally something else you might want to consider is the proximity of each of these unviersities to other universities and research hospitals. A very isolated university will have less opportunities for collaboration and be less able to attract top talent (faculty).</p>
<p>I guess I don’t understand why this should matter to you as an undergraduate? The overall quality of the medical research done on the same campus isn’t as important as the availability of good research projects for undergrads. Does the school offer grants for undergrad research? Do they often have undergrads working in labs? What is the departmental culture towards teaching and mentoring as compared to research? None of the schools you identified would be a bad choice if you are interested in biological research but I wouldn’t rely on any sort of ranking to make this choice.</p>
<p>To illustrate belevitt’s point, consider the following.
First, here are the latest NRC graduate program rankings of these schools for “Biology/Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences”, sorted on “S-Rank”:
([NRC</a> Rankings Overview: Biology/Integrated Biology/Integrated Biomedical Sciences - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124709/]NRC”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124709/))</p>
<p>Columbia (#4)
JHU (#8)
Georgetown (#54)
Pittsburgh (#55)
[Rice not listed in top 120]</p>
<p>Next, here are the NRC graduate program rankings for “Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering”, again sorted on “S-Rank”:</p>
<p>Rice (#4)
JHU (#5)
Columbia (#10)
Pitt (#13)
[Georgetown not listed]</p>
<p>Now, for “Cell and Development Biology” by “R-Rank”:</p>
<p>JHU (#2 for “Cellular & Molecular Medicine”)
Columbia (#13 for Cell Biology and Pathobiology")
JHU (#18 for “Cell Biology”)
Georgetown (#44 for “Tumor Biology”)
Pitt (#56 for “Cellular and Molecular Biology”)
[Rice not listed]</p>
<p>So you get somewhat different rankings depending on exactly what you’re looking at.</p>