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Mar 5, 2025
Jan de Boer

Editor at IamExpat Media

Jan studied History at the University of York and Broadcast Journalism at the University of Sheffield. Though born in York, Jan has lived most of his life in Zurich and has worked as a journalist, writer and editor since 2016. While he has plunged head-first back into life in Switzerland since returning to the country in 2020, he still enjoys a taste of home at pub quizzes and karaoke nights.Read more

Zurich, Basel and Lausanne are home to three of the 20 best hospitals on Earth, the latest ranking from Statista and Newsweek has revealed. Universitätsspital Zürich was also rated as the third best for healthcare in Europe.

World's Best Hospitals 2025

To create its annual list of the world’s best hospitals, Newsweek used Statista data to analyse the quality of 250 hospitals in 30 countries around the world. While data sources varied from country to country, each hospital was rated through the following factors:

  • Hospital recommendations via a survey of doctors, hospital managers and medical experts
  • Patient experience and satisfaction
  • Hospital quality: quality of care, hygiene measures, patient safety, waiting times 
  • Use of PROMs: Patient-Reported Outmeasures (in short, the use of standardised patient feedback)

Scores in each category contributed to a hospital’s final score, although each was given a different weighting - hospital recommendations was the most important factor, followed by hospital quality, patient experience and PROMs. It’s also important to note - especially considering which hospitals made up the top 20 - that the ranking covers the quality of healthcare, not the cost or its affordability.

Mayo Clinic wins best hospital on Earth for seventh year running

For 2025, first place was occupied by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. This is the seventh time in a row that the hospital has taken the top spot. The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and Toronto General in Canada completed the podium places.

In all, here are the 10 best hospitals in the world for 2025:

  1. Mayo Clinic - Rochester, United States
  2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
  3. Toronto General - Toronto, Canada
  4. The Johns Hopkins Hospital - Baltimore, United States
  5. Karolinska University Hospital - Stockholm, Sweden
  6. Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, United States
  7. Charité - Berlin, Germany
  8. Sheba Medical Center - Ramat Gan, Isreal
  9. Singapore General Hospital - Singapore
  10. University Hospital Zurich - Switzerland

As usual, American hospitals are the most numerous in the higher echelons, occupying seven of the top 20 spots. Hospitals in Switzerland took second place with three, with Danish and German hospitals coming in joint third with two.

University hospitals of Zurich, Basel and Lausanne the best in Switzerland

This year, the University Hospital of Zurich was ranked as the best in Switzerland, placing third in Europe behind Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and Charité in Berlin, and taking 10th in the overall ranking. The university hospitals of Basel and Lausanne also maintained their status in the top 20, coming 12th and 15th, respectively.

The findings align well with public impressions of the healthcare system in Switzerland. A January 2025 survey from GFS Bern, reported by SRF, found that people think that the system “delivers the desired service and should therefore be maintained in this form."

However, the rising cost of healthcare and health insurance remains a thorn for the public, with a majority thinking that the system is too expensive - rising premiums remain the biggest concern among residents in Switzerland. What’s more, 43 percent of respondents thought that the high cost of treatment means that not everyone benefits equally from medical care.

The 10 best Swiss hospitals for 2025

In all, here are the best hospitals in Switzerland for 2025, according to Newsweek:

  1. University Hospital Zurich
  2. University Hospital Basel
  3. University Hospital Lausanne
  4. University Hospital Geneva
  5. Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich
  6. Lindenhof Hospital, Bern
  7. Clara Hospital, Basel
  8. Insel Hospital, Bern
  9. Hislanden Clinic, Aarau
  10. Générale-Beaulieu Clinic, Geneva

For more information, check out the official website.

Thumb image credit: Michael Derrer Fuchs / Shutterstock.com

By Jan de Boer