According to the 2026 Medical and Health rankings released this week by British magazine Times Higher Education, which evaluate universities across medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other healthcare fields, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is ranked 13th globally.

NUS placed ahead of Tsinghua University, which shares 15th place with the U.K.’s King’s College London, as well as Columbia University, which is ranked 17th.

With this result, NUS is the highest-ranked university in Asia in this year’s medical and health subject rankings.

THE said it evaluated 1,230 universities from 102 countries and territories this year, using the same 18 performance indicators as the THE World University Rankings 2026, “recalibrated to suit medical and health fields.”

These indicators are grouped under five core pillars: teaching (29.5%), which includes teaching reputation, student-to-staff ratio, doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio, doctorates awarded to academic staff, and institutional income; research environment (29%), covering research reputation, research income, and research productivity; research quality (30%), including citation impact, research strength, research excellence, and research influence; industry (4%), measured by industry income and patents; and international outlook (7.5%), which assesses international students, international staff, and international co-authorship.

The University of Oxford claimed the top spot in the field, reflecting strong performance across teaching, research, and industry engagement. It was followed by the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, both of which demonstrated particular strength in research environment.

The Imperial College London arrives fourth as Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University come fifth.