U.S. News & World Report released its “Best Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery” 2025-26 list on July 29, with New York City-based NYU Langone Hospitals ranking No. 1.
U.S. News analyzed data from nearly 4,500 hospitals and ranked the top 50 across 15 specialties, including neurosurgery and neurology. Read more about the methodology here.
Here are the top 50 hospitals for neurosurgery and neurology:
1. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
2. UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
3. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)
4. Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, Minn.)
5. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
6. Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
7. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
8. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
9. UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
10. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
11. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
12. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care-Stanford Hospital
13. Cleveland Clinic
14. UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
15. Houston Methodist Hospital
16. Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
17. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
18. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
19. Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix)
20. Mayo Clinic-Florida (Jacksonville)
21. AdventHealth Orlando
22. North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health (Manhasset, N.Y.)
23. University of Miami Hospital and Clinics-UHealth Tower
24. Long Island Jewish Medical Center at Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
25. Keck Medical Center of USC (Los Angeles)
26. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals-Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
27. UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, Calif.)
28. UC San Diego Health-La Jolla, Hillcrest, and East Campus Medical Centers
29. University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
30. Montefiore Einstein (Bronx, N.Y.)
31. Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals (New York City)
32. University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.)
33. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
33. Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health (Hackensack, N.J.)
35. Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak, Mich.)
36. Boston Medical Center
37. Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital (Lake Forest, Ill.)
38. Yale New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)
39. UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)
40. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio)
40. University of Chicago Medical Center (Chicago)
42. University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.)
43. M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center (Minneapolis)
44. Lenox Hill Hospital at Northwell Health (New York)
45. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh)
46. Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center (Houston)
47. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston)
48. Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston)
49. St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix)
49. Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals (Evanston, Ill.)
