MedPage Today July 23, 2024
— Medical schools that opted out of submitting data went unranked
After being delayed for the second year in a row, U.S. News & World Report rolled out this year’s “Best Medical Schools” rankings with substantial changes.
Notably, the best institutions for research and primary care were sorted into tiers, rather than by ordinal rankings. (The “Best Hospitals” rankings from U.S. News have also moved away from ordinal rankings.)
Last year, a number of top schools publicly announced they would no longer submit data to or participate in the rankings. Harvard Medical School led the way in doing so, and a number of other institutions followed suit.
In another change, medical schools that have opted to no longer submit data...