These are the world top 50 Microbiology Colleges and Universities on the basis of:

• Global research reputation,

• Regional research reputation,
• Publications,
• Normalized citation impact,
• Total citations,
• Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited,
• Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited,
• International collaboration.

1. Harvard University
United States
https://gsas.harvard.edu/programs-of-study/divisions/harvard-integrated-life-sciences

2. University of Oxford
United Kingdom

3. University of Washington
United States

4. Rockefeller University
United States
https://www.rockefeller.edu/

5. University of California–San Francisco

United States

6. Duke University
United States

7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

8. University of Wisconsin–Madison
United States

9. Johns Hopkins University

United States
10. Washington University in St. Louis
United States

11. Stanford University

United States

12. Imperial College London

United Kingdom

13. University of Tokyo

Japan

14. University of California–Berkeley

United States

15. University of Pennsylvania

United States

16. University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

17. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

United States

18. Cornell University

United States

19. University of California–San Diego

United States

20. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

United States

21. Yale University

United States

22. Emory University

United States

23. University of Alabama–Birmingham

United States
24. University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

25. University of Glasgow

United Kingdom

26. University of Queensland Australia

Australia

27. University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

28. Pennsylvania State University

United States

29. Osaka University

Japan

30. McGill University

Canada

31. University of California–Los Angeles

United States

32. University of Michigan

United States

33. University of British Columbia

Canada

34. University of Maryland–Baltimore

United States

35. Aix-Marseille Université

France

36. New York University

United States

37. University of Pittsburgh

United States
38. Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands

39. Columbia University

United States

40. Karolinska Institute

Sweden

41. University College London

United Kingdom

42. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom

43. University of Copenhagen

Denmark

44. University of Helsinki

Finland

45. Leiden University

Netherlands

46. Ohio State University

United States

47. University of Toronto

Canada

48. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

United States

49. University of Chicago

United States

50. Seoul National University

South Korea