By all commonly used measures for graduate school, UT Southwestern is among the
top graduate schools in biomedical sciences in the United States.
UT Southwestern Graduate Programs ranked among the
top 20 nationwide in the disciplines covered by the
Division of Basic Science in the last comprehensive review of graduate programs in 1995 by the
National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. The graduate school has more than doubled in size since that time while maintaining a student to faculty ratio of less than 2:1.
In 2006, US News and World Report ranks graduate schools differently than the National Research Council, but also places UT Southwestern in the top 20 of graduate programs in the biological sciences, with the highest ranking of graduate schools in Texas.
According to the latest
ScienceWatch ranking of faculty publications world wide for their impact on science based on citation data, UT Southwestern faculty ranked:
1st in Biology and Biochemistry
7th in Neurobiology
7th in Molecular Biology and Genetics
In 2006,
ScienceWatch listed
16 UT Southwestern researchers as “highly cited”.
Dr. Xiaodong Wang was the 3rd most highly cited scientist in molecular biology and genetics,
Dr. Jerry Shay was the 6th most cited in general biomedicine and
Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski was the 10th most highly cited scientist in biology and biochemistry.
In data published in 2004 by the NIH on research funding for basic science departments, UT Southwestern ranked:
2nd in Pharmacology
3rd in Biochemistry
8th in Neurosciences, Psychiatry
13th in Genetics
19th in Physiology
25th in Microbiology
27th in Cell Biology
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