Sotto riportiamo la classifica delle 50 migliori  Università mondiali per quanto riguarda le facoltà di  Scienze e Medicina in base ai dati statistici dello  studio Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd:

Classifica 2010
Università Paese
1
Harvard University USA
2
University of Cambridge UK
3
University of Oxford UK
4
Stanford University USA
5
University of California, Berkeley (UCB) USA
6
The University of Tokyo Giappone
7
Johns Hopkins University USA
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
9
Yale University USA
10 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
11
Imperial College London UK
12
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) USA
13
National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
14
The University of Melbourne Australia
15
UCL (University College London) UK
16
University of Toronto Canada
17
University of Edinburgh UK
18
Kyoto University Giappone
19
The University of Sydney Australia
20 University of British Columbia Canada
21
Peking University Cina
22
McGill University Canada
23
Karolinska Institute Svezia
24
Columbia University USA
25
Cornell University USA
26
University of California, San Francisco USA
27
Duke University USA
28
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA
29
University of Washington USA
30
Kings College London (University of London) UK
31
University of Chicago USA
32
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Svizzera
33=
University of Michigan USA
33=
University of Pennsylvania USA
35
Princeton University USA
36
Australian National University Australia
37
University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
38
Seoul National University Corea del Sud
39
The University of Manchester UK
40 The University of Queensland Australia
41
The University of Auckland Nuova Zelanda
42
Washington University in St. Louis USA
43
National Taiwan University (NTU)
44
University of California, Davis USA
45
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germania
46
The University of New South Wales Australia
47=
Rockefeller University USA
47=
University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
49
Monash University Australia
50=
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germania
50=
University of Amsterdam Olanda

Come si deduce dalla classifica sopra, anche in questo campo (facoltà di scienze e medicina) le università americane e britanniche occupano il maggior numero di posizioni in questa ridotta classifica to 50.

La prima delle università italiane è posizionata al 144° posto e si tratta dell’ Università di Milano.

Per ulteriori info su questa classifica visitate il sito Top Universities.