Mount Sinai School of Medicine's PhD program ranked third among 53 institutions in a nationwide survey conducted by Academic Analytics.

(New York, New York – February 20, 2007)—Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s PhD program ranked third among 53 institutions in a nationwide survey conducted by Academic Analytics. The survey assessed PhD programs across many disciplines, including in most freestanding medical schools and research institutes in the United States. In the category of Specialized Research Universities-Biomedical and Health Sciences, Mount Sinai ranked above other top-tier medical schools, including Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Southwestern, and also outranked neighboring New York institutions, including Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and SUNY Downstate Medical University.

To measure the success of the PhD programs, Academic Analytics used a tool called Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP), a quantitative analysis based on the output of a PhD faculty’s successes in getting published, citation of their publications by their peers, their successes in obtaining research grants, and work recognized with prestigious awards.

“I believe this ranking reflects the true excellence of our research faculty,” said Dennis S. Charney, MD, Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs for Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. “In general, whenever the quality of Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers, clinicians, and students are evaluated by objective measures of performance, we are ranked among the very best in the nation.”

“This remarkable achievement is a reflection of the quality of faculty who lead and participate in our PhD program,” said John Morrison, PhD, Dean of Basic Sciences and the Graduate School of Biological Sciences that houses Mount Sinai’s PhD programs. “This shows that our faculty are well funded, and that they are publishing in high-quality peer-reviewed journals that are cited by their peers. The ranking is also a culmination of Mount Sinai’s recruitment efforts and illustrates that we are a leading institution that draws talented people to pursue groundbreaking work.” Dr. Morrison also noted that Mount Sinai has adopted similar quantitative systems to internally measure faculty productivity and quality and help determine faculty appointments and resource allocation.

The only institutions to rank above Mount Sinai were the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and Scripps Research Institute in California, two research institutes that have small, highly focused graduate programs.