{"id":344046,"date":"2026-06-20T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344046\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:59:10","slug":"see-how-texas-medical-schools-rank-among-the-worlds-best-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344046\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Texas medical schools rank among the world&#8217;s best for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When it comes to training the doctors and researchers who will staff hospitals, Texas holds its own on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several Texas health and medical institutions landed on U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-global-universities\/search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:2026-27 Best Global Universities list,;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;2026-27 Best Global Universities list,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">2026-27 Best Global Universities list,<\/a> with three cracking the global top 500 \u2014 led by UT Southwestern Medical Center at No. 113.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The list considered 13 indicators and weights to measure global research performance and reputation, ranking the world&#8217;s 2,250 top universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s a look at how some major public and private health care and medical universities in Texas fared on the list.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Medical and nursing students F. Marie Hall SimLife Center, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"649\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9bd19bd35ee060850e3c8bb8c0d5f029.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Medical and nursing students F. Marie Hall SimLife Center, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.<\/p>\n<p>University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Global Ranking: No. 113.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Location:\u00a0Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Type:\u00a0Public university.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor College of Medicine<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Global Ranking: No. 144.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Location:\u00a0Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Type:\u00a0Private university.<\/p>\n<p>University of Texas Health Science Center \u2014 Houston<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Global Ranking: No. 324.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Location:\u00a0Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Type:\u00a0Public university.<\/p>\n<p>University of Texas Medical Branch \u2014 Galveston<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Global Ranking: No. 599.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Location:\u00a0Galveston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Type:\u00a0Public university.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center<img alt=\"The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus as seen on March 27, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"710\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ed88862fa02a3b1af3d6b8a5fc9423a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus as seen on March 27, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Global Ranking: No. 1,871.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Location:\u00a0Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Type:\u00a0Public university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas. Got a news tip for him? Email him at mrosiles@usatodayco.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2026\/06\/20\/best-texas-medical-schools-us-news-world-rankings-2026-ut-southwestern-baylor-ttuhsc\/90607004007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:UT Southwestern, Baylor lead Texas medical schools in global rankings;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UT Southwestern, Baylor lead Texas medical schools in global rankings&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UT Southwestern, Baylor lead Texas medical schools in global rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to training the doctors and researchers who will staff hospitals, Texas holds its own on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-344046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-houston","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}