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Colleges: Top 20, Combined BS/MD degrees, and interesting statistics.

 

Top 20 Colleges Acceptance Rate
Harvard University* 10%
Stanford University 13%
Yale University* 11%
Mass. Institute of Technology 16%
University of California Berkeley 24%
California Institute of Technology 17%
Princeton University* 10%
Columbia University* 11%
University of Pennsylvania* 20%
Cornell University* 31%
Dartmouth College* 18%
Brown University* 16%
Northwestern University 33%
University of Chicago 40%
University of Michigan Ann Arbor 53%
Carnegie Mellon University 38%
Johns Hopkins University 30%
Duke University 25%
Washington University in St. Louis 20%
Georgetown University 23%

The acceptance rate is an indication of how popular the college is and how hard it is to get in.

Ivy League colleges are marked by *.

 

Combined BS/MD Programs - available at the following 30 colleges

Albany Medical College

University of Florida College of Medicine

George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (DC)

Howard University College of Medicine  (DC)

Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

University of Miami School of Medicine

Meharry Medical College 

University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

UMDNJ--New Jersey Medical School

University of Wisconsin Medical School

Brown Medical School

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

University of South Florida College of Medicine

The Texas A & M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine

Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine

Drexel University College of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (VA)

Temple University School of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin U-Med & Sci

 

Interesting Statistics - There are over 3,000 universities and community colleges in the USA.

 

No. of degrees awarded each year -

16,500 - MD degree (doctors). (33,000 apply to get into MD program each year).

35,000 - JD degree (lawyers).

67,000 - Engineers.

100,000 - MBA.

 

No. of colleges -

Medical schools - 126 ( 3 in DC, 3 in MD, and 3 in VA)

Law Schools - 186 (6 in DC, 2 in MD, and 7 in VA)

Engineering Schools - 185 offer doctoral programs; about 1,000 award BS degrees.

MBA - 377 offer master's programs; numerous colleges offer Bachelor's degree.

 

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