Peking Union Medical College (ranking 1), China Pharmaceutical University (ranking 2), Peking University (ranking 3), Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (ranking 4), Zhejiang University (ranking 5), Fudan University (ranking 6), Shanghai Jiaotong University (ranking 7), Shandong University (ranking 8), Sun Yat-sen University (ranking 9

Peking Union Medical College, located in Beijing, is a national key university directly under the National Health and Wellness Commission and implements a unified management system with China Academy of Medical Sciences. It is a national "double-first-class" construction university and a member of the excellent doctor education and training plan and the medical "double-first-class" construction alliance.

China Pharmaceutical University, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a multidisciplinary key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), co-founded by the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. It is a national "double-first-class" construction university and a national "21/project" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform".

It has been selected into the national "11/plan", the "excellent engineer education and training plan" of the Ministry of Education, the national undergraduate innovation experiment plan, the national undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training plan, the national postgraduate plan for building a high-level university, the national new engineering research and practice project, and the lead unit of the Sino-US pharmaceutical college alliance.