Methodology

Newsweek ranked the top hospitals worldwide in the following specialties:

1. Cardiology
2. Cardiac surgery
3. Oncology
4. Endocrinology
5. Neurology
6. Neurosurgery
7. Orthopedics
8. Gastroenterology
9. Obstetrics & gynecology
10. Pulmonology
11. Pediatrics
12. Urology

The rankings are based on three data sources:

1. Worldwide online survey (primary weighted 70%, secondary weighted 30%, total weight 92.5%), conducted from June to July 2023 in which tens of thousands of experts were asked to recommend hospitals based on their expertise in one primary medical field and were allowed to choose an optional secondary area of expertise
2. Accreditation data (weighted 5%), added wherever available, which reflect a variety of structural and/or quality requirements relevant for specialty rankings
3. Voluntary PROMs Implementation Survey (weighted 2.5%), conducted by Newsweek and Statista, in order to account for the increasing importance of Patient report Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Any hospitals that specialize in multiple medical fields received specific scores for each medical field based on their respective nominations, meaning one hospital could be represented in more than one list provided it received enough recommendations in each field.

The top hospitals for each specialty

According to Newsweek, the top three hospitals worldwide in each of the 12 specialties were:

Cardiac surgery

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Cleveland Clinic/Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular & Thoracic Institute (Cleveland, OH)
3. Massachusetts General Hospital/Corrigan Minehan Heart Center (Boston, MA)

Cardiology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Cleveland Clinic/Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular & Thoracic Institute (Cleveland, OH)
3. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD)

Endocrinology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
3. Asan Medical Center (Seoul, South Korea)

Gastroenterology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)
3. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)

Neurology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
3. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)

Neurosurgery

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)
3. Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Obstetrics & Gynecology

1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD)
2. University College Hospital (London, United Kingdom)
3. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)

Oncology

1. MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX)
2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)
3. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)

Orthopedics

1. Hospital For Special Surgery (New York, NY)
2. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
3. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD)

Pediatrics

1. Boston Children's Hospital (Boston, MA)
2. Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada)
3. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

Pulmonology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
3. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)

Urology

1. Mayo Clinic – Rochester (Rochester, MN)
2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)
3. Cleveland Clinic/Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute (Cleveland, OH)

(Newsweek "World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2024," accessed 10/26)