Best Life Science Universities Revealed

Life science consulting is essential to the long-term sustainability of our universities, particularly those with leading life sciences departments.

Top Universities has revealed the SQ world university rankings 2018 for life sciences and medicines, and unsurprisingly Harvard has top billing as the best life sciences university in the world.

The UK follows in closely behind with the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford both coming in at joint second place.

UCL is in 8^th place, so still in the top ten, while Imperial College London sits at 11^th place, the University of Edinburgh at 16^th and King’s College London at 17^th. The University of Manchester comes in at number 35, a significant leap from last’s years position at 50^th. It shares its 35^th place with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Others in the top 50 include The University of Glasgow at joint 45^th place, and the University of Bristol with has raised from 62^nd place last year to 48^th place this year.

The placements of each university are determined by the university’s academic reputation, employer reputations, citations by paper, and H-index citations. This means that the amount of publications and research a university carries out is key to the billing it gets on these league tables. It also shows us just how healthy the UK’s life science research community is at the moment.

The high billing of UK universities demonstrates just how strong the UK life sciences industry is, and just how important it is to protect and grow it.