St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital remains one of the nation’s top places for academics to work, according to a ranking released today by The Scientist magazine.

St. Jude retains its No. 2 ranking from last year, eclipsed only by The J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, Calif.

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., rounds out the top three U.S. institutions for 2011.

Internationally, the top three institutions were the Weizmann Institute of Science, INRA in Versailles, France, and the University of Queensland based in Brisbane, Australia, earned third-place accolades.

Top-ranked institutions not only offered a productive research environment, but also offered a fun, casual atmosphere, according to the magazine.

For example, at the University of Dundee in Scotland, No. 6 among international institutions this year, strives to give its scientists an atmosphere that is as playful as it is rigorous.

“We’re a high-powered research environment in a low pressure living environment,” Mike Ferguson, the university’s dean of research, told The Scientist.

The top 15 U.S. institutions, according to the magazine, are:

1. The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, Calif.

2. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.

3. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash.

4. Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, Calif.

5. Children’s Hospital Boston, Mass.

6. Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Ill., and Glendale, Ariz.

7. The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Okla.

8. Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Mo.

9. Princeton University, N.J.

10. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla.

11. Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wash.

12. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga.

13. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine

14. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Okla.

15. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

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