The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Life Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for life sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 50 life sciences universities

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	91.6
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	91.2
3	Harvard University	United States	90.9
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	90.1
5	Stanford University	United States	89.3
6	University of California, Berkeley	United States	88.6
7	Johns Hopkins University	United States	87.9
8	Princeton University	United States	87.2
9	Yale University	United States	86.3
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	83.8
11	Duke University	United States	81.9
12	University of Chicago	United States	81.6
13	Cornell University	United States	80.7
14	Columbia University	United States	80.6
15	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	80.3
16	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	80.2
17	University of California, San Diego	United States	79.1
18	University of Michigan	United States	79.0
19	University College London	United Kingdom	78.9
20	University of British Columbia	Canada	78.8
21	University of Pennsylvania	United States	78.2
22	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	77.8
22	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	77.8
24	University of Washington	United States	77.6
25	University of California, Davis	United States	76.5
26	University of Toronto	Canada	76.4
27	University of Melbourne	Australia	75.7
28	McGill University	Canada	75.0
29	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.7
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	72.9
31	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	72.4
32	Kyoto University	Japan	70.7
33	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.2
34	Uppsala University	Sweden	69.8
35	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	69.6
36	Australian National University	Australia	69.2
37	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	68.5
38	University of Massachusetts	United States	68.2
39	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	67.3
40	Boston University	United States	66.8
41	University of Strasbourg	France	66.5
42	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	66.4
43	Pennsylvania State University	United States	65.0
44	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	64.8
44	Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	64.8
46	King's College London	United Kingdom	64.5
47	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	64.3
48	Ghent University	Belgium	63.1
49	University of Montreal	Canada	62.8
50	University of São Paulo	Brazil

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