Selecting a graduate program is the first step on the road to a successful career in the biomedical sciences. With hundreds of biomedical graduate programs from which to choose, it’s important to narrow your search and apply to schools that match your goals. This website is designed to help you gather essential information about the top-ranked graduate schools in the country so that you can make an informed decision about where to pursue a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences.

There is no single ‘right way’ to select a Ph.D. program; criteria that are important to you may not be important to someone else. Consequently, this website does not provide an overall ranking of graduate programs in the biomedical sciences. Instead, we focus on the top-ranked graduate schools and biomedical sciences departments in receipt of federal research dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The website is further subdivided by topic so that you can decide which criteria are most important to you.

Use the links on the left to learn more about factors to consider when choosing a Ph.D. program in the biomedical sciences at a top-ranked graduate school.