Schools, Medical Center RankingsThe newsmagazine's 2008 survey ranked UCSF Medical Center as the seventh-best hospital in the country and No. 1 in the Bay Area. UCSF has received a top-10 ranking every year since 2000.
In a separate set of pediatric specialty rankings, UCSF Children's Hospital placed among the top 20 in six different areas.
The 2009 rankings placed UCSF's School of Medicine fifth among all medical schools in the country in terms of quality of research training and primary care training. In addition, the school ranked among the top 10 in seven medical school specialty programs, including first in AIDS medicine, second in women's health, and third in internal medicine.
Unlike past years, the 2009 rankings did not include nursing and pharmacy schools. In 2008, the last year pharmacy schools were ranked, the UCSF School of Pharmacy placed first in the nation. The most recent year nursing schools were ranked was 2007; the UCSF School of Nursing came in second that year.
U.S. News does not conduct a survey of dental schools.
In the most recent survey of U.S. graduate schools, in 1995, the UCSF Graduate Division was ranked second in the country for its genetics program; third for cell biology; fourth for neuroscience; fifth for physiology; and seventh for bioengineering. The next set of rankings is expected to be released in 2009.
With $444.3 million in research and training grants, fellowships and other awards, UCSF was the second-largest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research support in 2008-up from third place in 2007. For more than a decade, the University has ranked within the top four nationally for total annual NIH funding.
As they had in previous years, the UCSF School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy all ranked first nationally in total NIH dollars in 2008. According to the NIH, the School of Dentistry received nearly $19 million in research support for 2008; the School of Nursing, $9 million; and the School of Pharmacy, $19.7 million.
The UCSF School of Medicine ranked second in the nation, with nearly $384 million in NIH research funding in 2008.
Between 2001 and 2007, UCSF showed the greatest increase in diversity compared to other California medical schools, according to a study conducted in 2008 by the Greenlining Institute, a public policy organization. Nearly one-third of students in the 2007 entering class were from groups underrepresented in medicine.
The school also matriculated the largest number of African American and Latino students in the UC system, and was the only school that has had Native American representation in most years, the study found.
In 2008, UCSF came in 12th in the magazine's national ranking of academic institutions. The University received particularly high marks for employee pay and tenure.
In 2007, UCSF ranked first in nursing and pharmacy in terms of faculty scholarly productivity The index ranks nearly 7,300 doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions throughout the country. The rankings take into account faculty members' scholarly publications, grants and various honors and awards.
For the 12-month period ending in July 2008, UCSF cardiologists ranked first in the nation for the speed with which heart attack patients are treated using balloon angioplasty, a procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels of the heart. Patients at UCSF Medical Center were treated within an hour of their arrival, faster than patients at 850 other US hospitals, according to the survey.
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, lung and liver transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages by significant margins, according to data published by the registry in January 2008.
The UCSF Heart Transplant Program had a 100 percent one-year survival rate, while the UCSF Liver Transplant Program had a 92 percent survival rate and the Lung Transplant Program generated a 90 percent survival rate after one year.