(The Center Square) – In a new public ranking of American medical schools, two public Florida universities outscored the medical colleges at Harvard and the Mayo Clinic.

The Medical School Excellence Index is the inaugural report of the new Center for Accountability in Medicine and ranks schools according to their commitment to academic excellence, transparency and rejection of diversity, equity and inclusion principles.

Based on that rubric, the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida both earned an ‘A’ grade and landed in the top five medical schools in the country. So did the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan’s medical school.

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