Cornell U., Weill Cornell Medical College

Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total R&D expenditures | |||||||||
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Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2023 | 171 | 63.2 | 459 | |||||||||
2022 | 175 | 62.2 | 457 | |||||||||
2021 | 192 | 57.6 | 447 | |||||||||
2020 | 197 | 56.8 | 450 | |||||||||
2019 | 173 | 61.8 | 447 | |||||||||
2018 | 203 | 53.2 | 428 | |||||||||
2017 | 202 | 53.1 | 425 | |||||||||
2016 | 197 | 54.8 | 430 | |||||||||
2015 | 190 | 56 | 426 | |||||||||
2014 | 175 | 59.1 | 422 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data

Fields | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
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All fields | 79 | 79 | 62 | 56 | 77 | 55 | 54 | 58 | 66 | 73 |
Science and engineering | 79 | 79 | 62 | 56 | 77 | 55 | 54 | 58 | 66 | 73 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 72 | 73 | 55 | 50 | 73 | 52 | 49 | 55 | 62 | 72 |
Biochemistry and biophysics | 3 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, general | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 17 |
Genetics and genomics | 1 | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | 3 | . | . |
Microbiology and immunology | 6 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 14 |
Molecular biology | 11 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
Neurobiology and neurosciences | 14 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 4 |
Pharmacology and toxicology | 6 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 9 |
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology | 10 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, other | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer science | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences, other | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 2 | . | . |
Pharmaceutical sciences | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Health sciences, other | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Physical sciences | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Chemistry | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Physics | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Research and experimental psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates