Keele has rapidly established a prestigious reputation for medicine. The school was ranked 4 out of the UK's 33 medical schools in The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 with a student satisfaction score of 92.4%. Within the United Kingdom the medical school is ranked second only to Oxford and ahead of Cambridge by "The Guardian" and "The Sunday Times" . Globally, the School of Medicine at Keele is ranked 9th by the QS World University Rankings (51–100), placing higher than several American Ivy League universities, including Cornell, Brown and Penn.