U.S. News and World Report Survey
In the fall of 2009, U.S. News commissioned a survey by T.E. Systems, Inc. of doctoral programs in the biological sciences. Questionnaires were sent to the department heads and deans or directors of graduate studies at each program. The questionnaires asked individuals to rate the quality of the program at each institution on a five-point scale from outstanding to marginal. In the biological sciences, 15 percent of those surveyed responded.
In this reputational survey, the GSBS ranked in the top third in the nation.
NIH Support to All Institutions (Fiscal Year 2010)
| Rank | Institution |
Amount
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johns Hopkins U |
$610,467,293
|
| 2 | U of Penn |
$481,559,772
|
| 3 | U of California San Francisco |
$475,400,165
|
| 4 | U of Washington |
$474,042,118
|
| 5 | U of Michigan |
$470,517,923
|
| 6 | U of Pittsburgh |
$424,154,899
|
| 7 | U of California San Diego |
$390,832,339
|
| 8 | Washington University |
$386,470,071
|
| 9 | Yale |
$378,805,446
|
| 10 | U of California Los Angeles |
$368,854,137
|
| 11 | Duke |
$351,616,899
|
| 12 | U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
$341,434,146
|
| 13 | Stanford |
$339,893,354
|
| 14 | Massachusetts General Hospital |
$331,770,965
|
| 15 | Vanderbilt University |
$322,051,798
|
| 16 | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
$302,335,077
|
| 17 | Columbia U Health Sciences |
$290,724,425
|
| 18 | Emory |
$262,572,191
|
| 19 | UT-Houston + MD Anderson Cancer Center |
$259,041,092
|
| 20 | U of Minnesota |
$255,160,166
|
| 21 | U of Wisconsin Madison |
$248,762,869
|
| 22 | Harvard University Medical School |
$214,927,564
|
| 23 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $210,376,180 |
| 24 | Scripps Research Institute |
$208,869,561
|
| 25 | Baylor College of Medicine |
$202,869,815
|
National Research Council Rankings
According to a study published by the National Research Council, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston is rated in the upper quartile of graduate programs in the United States. The study was based on a 1992-93 survey of over 8,000 faculty members nationwide. In the six areas of the biomedical sciences in which the GSBS has programs, the ratings were as shown below.
| Program | GSBS Ranking in Terms of Faculty Quality | Percentile Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 42 of 194 | 21.6 % |
| Cell and Developmental Biology | 38 of 179 | 21.2% |
| Molecular and General Genetics | 26 of 103 | 25.2% |
| Neurosciences | 51 of 102 | 50.0% |
| Pharmacology | 38 of 127 | 29.9% |
| Physiology | 23 of 140 | 16.4% |
