Medical research and teaching ranked amongst best in the world

The University of Glasgow has reached a world top 50 position for clinical, pre-clinical and health in the influential Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings.

Our new position marks a jump of ten places to 47th in the world in the annual league table and is the result of recent success in areas such as medicine, dentistry, public health and nursing.

It’s an exciting time for the University of Glasgow with teaching and research in these areas set to become even stronger as we advance as a world-class, world-changing university.

  • The Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre, which we lead, is working to develop new forms of personalised treatment for chronic diseases.
  • The recently-opened £23m Sir Michael Stoker Building offers our Centre for Virus Research new facilities for understanding and treating viral diseases in humans and animals.
  • Next year, our state-of-the-art Imaging Centre for Excellence will become the first in the UK to house a £7m 7-Tesla MRI scanner in a clinical setting, offering radical new possibilities in brain imaging and stroke treatment.

The College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences brings together internationally renowned experts and state-of-the-art facilities to improve health and quality of life for humans and animals across the globe. The College also provides innovative teaching for the clinicians, life scientists and allied health professionals of tomorrow