Penn Dental Medicine Ranked Among Top Dental Schools

Philadelphia — Penn Dental Medicine remains ranked among the top universities worldwide for dental studies. In the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, Penn Dental Medicine was ranked fourth among dental schools in North America and sixteenth worldwide from more than 100 global university dental programs.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject are conducted annually by QS TopUniversities. For 2025, the dental institutions were evaluated in the areas of academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper, h-index citations, and international research network, with employer reputation weighted 10% and the others weighted 30% each in determining the ranking. Weightings are reviewed on an annual basis.

The indicators used in the ranking are defined by QS TopUniversities as follows:

• The academic reputation indicator measures the reputation of institutions and their programs by asking academic experts to nominate universities based on their subject area of expertise.
• The employer reputation indicator measures the reputation of institutions and their programs among employers.
• The citations per paper indicator measures the impact and quality of the scientific work done by institutions, on average per publication.
• The h-index is a metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of an individual scientist or an institution. The index is based on the set of the most cited papers and the number of citations received in other publications.
• An international research network is a measure of an institution’s success in creating and sustaining research partnerships with institutions in other locations. The indicator measures the diversity and richness of an institution’s research network by examining the number of different countries represented and whether these relationships are renewed and repeated.

“This ranking reflects the tremendous depth of research and collaboration among our faculty,” says Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark S. Wolff. “They can take great pride in continuing to advance dental medicine, and in turn, the reputation of Penn worldwide.”