The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor was ranked as the top dental school in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year, according to QS World’s University Rankings.
The university dropped to fourth in the world after coming in first in 2025, 2024 and 2023.
Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the University of Hong Kong in China and Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam in the Netherlands earned the top three spots in QS World’s University Rankings.
The rankings compare schools across five categories: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, H-index, which measures productivity and impact of academics and departments, and international research network. Read more on the methodology here.
Here are the 12 dental schools in the U.S. that placed in the top 50 worldwide, along with their score out of 100.
4. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: 90.3
6. University of California San Francisco: 89.2
13. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.): 84.5
17. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): 82.1
18. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 81.5
21. University of Washington (Seattle): 80.8
24. New York University (New York City): 80.3
26. University of California Los Angeles: 80.1
28. University at Buffalo SUNY: 79.3
29. Tufts University (Medford, Mass.): 79
38. Columbia University (New York City): 76.9
47. Boston University: 75.6
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