Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in Brazil ranked first in the realm of life studies and medicine in Latin America in 2024, considering the academic reputation score received from the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by subject. That year, USP got a score of 83 out of 100, followed by the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) — scoring 82.4. Four of the ten leading universities that year are Brazilian.
Leading universities for life sciences and medicine in Latin America in 2024, by academic reputation
(index score)
Characteristic
Academic reputation index score
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (Brazil)
83
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) (Argentina)
82.4
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico)
81
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) (Chile)
80.9
Universidad de Chile (Chile)
78.5
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
76.4
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) (Brazil)
75.5
UNESP (Brazil)
73.9
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (Brazil)
70.5
Pontificia universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
69.2
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)(Brazil)
Only among the universities with available information
Supplementary notes
Academic reputation is one of the four key indicators that compose the overall QS regional score, along with employer reputation, citations per paper, H-index (set of academic’s most cited papers and number of citations received). For a more in-depth look on the ranking framework and methodology, please click here.
The figures provided were taken from the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
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