Top Graduate Medical Schools

Harvard University

• As the top-rated medical school in the country, according to a 2010 report by US News and World Report, Harvard University is a school that offers medical training in a variety of different fields. According the the Harvard Medical School website, "The study of medicine is a powerful integration of science, technologies, experience, and experiment that enables its students to alleviate human pain and suffering wherever in the world it may occur." Harvard medical students can study both medicine and dentistry. The first two years are focused on learning from the book about human physiology and disease. The final two years are spent practicing medicine with one to three-month clerkships at various hospitals. The average standards for admission to the school are at 3.8 GPA and MCAT scores of 11.01 on verbal, 12.09 on physical science, and 12.03 on biological science. Tuition for the 2009-10 academic year, not including room and board and other expenses was $42,500.

  Harvard Medical School
  25 Shattuck Street
  Boston, MA 02115
  (617) 432-1000
  hms.harvard.edu

University of Pennsylvania

• The University of Pennsylvania medical school is one of the United States' oldest and best. It was ranked as the second best medical school in the country by US News and World Report in 2010. "At Penn academic excellence, as well as compassion for the patients we are privileged to serve, are stressed," according to the University of Penn website. The school offers six modules to complete before graduation. The first modules focus on book learning, and the final modules require the student to do more hands-on work. There school features a medical simulation center where students can practice their craft. The median GPA of the class entering in 2009 was a 3.84 with MCAT scores of 11 on verbal, 12 on physical science, and 12 on biological science. The yearly tuition, not including room and board, is $42,472.

  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  295 John Morgan Building
  3620 Hamilton Walk
  Philadelphia, PA 19104
  (215) 662-4000
  med.upenn.edu

Johns Hopkins University

• The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked in the top three medical schools in the country according to the 2010 US News and World Report. The website states, "The inter-relationship among teaching, research and patient care that was created at Hopkins more than a century ago by the founding physicians of the School of Medicine remains as effective today as it was at its initiation. Here, ideas continue to be honed, tested, debated, taught to others and applied for the benefit of the human race." The first two years are focused mainly on learning in books and doing simulations. The next two years are spent in clerkships and residences at hospitals around the country. Tuition at Johns Hopkins is $39,500 not including room and board for the 2009-10 academic year.

  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  733 North Broadway
  Suite G-49
  Baltimore, MD 21205-2196 USA
  410-955-3182
  hopkinsmedicine.org