Case Western Reserve University is one of the top 16 medical schools for research.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the country for research, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual list. For its 2025 assessment, the magazine made a major tweak to its methodology, ditching the usual numerical rankings and ranking schools in four “tiers.”
Case Western Reserve University is one of 16 Tier 1 medical schools, along with Yale University, Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, and the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.
To validate Case Western Reserve University's quality, this year's evaluation excluded qualitative peer assessments, which previously made up 25% of the rankings, and was based solely on quantitative data such as research, selectivity and faculty resources. Schools that received scores between 85 and 99 based on total research funding, research funding per faculty member, faculty-to-student ratio and selectivity (median MCAT score, undergraduate GPA and overall acceptance rate) were ranked in the first tier.
“The data used to calculate these rankings helps prove what we have known for many years: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine offers a top-class medical education. The work we do and the experiences we provide to future physicians are exceptional,” Dean Stan Gerson said, citing partnerships with Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Health System, University Hospitals and Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
“Obviously, numbers can't accurately capture the value of what's happening in the classroom, in the lab, in the clinical setting and, most importantly, in the community.”
U.S. News & World Report made significant changes to its methodology this year after widespread criticism, particularly of the criteria used to create the rankings. The rankings released earlier this spring placed more emphasis on research and less on reputation, faculty resources and selectivity. The rankings for engineering and medicine were delayed because of questions about the source data, but the engineering rankings were released last month.
In recent years, some medical schools, including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Duke, have refused to report grades, so U.S. News did not include them in its rankings this year.
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