Baylor College of Medicine - Medical School

Medical School

Each year around 172 medical students join the medical school, about 75% of whom are Texas residents. For entering medical students in 2010, the average undergraduate GPA was 3.80 and the average MCAT score was 33.1. In the 2013 U.S. News and World Report top medical schools rankings, Baylor College of Medicine was ranked 21st for research and 49th for primary care making it the highest ranked medical school in Houston.

Baylor College of Medicine is the only private medical school in the southwest region of the United States, and has the lowest tuition of all private medical schools in the United States. Baylor is one of the few medical schools in the United States that is structured with an accelerated 1.5 year preclinical curriculum (the others are Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City,the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia). BCM has nearly 4,000 faculty on staff (including affiliated hospital faculty, volunteer faculty and emeritus) with a faculty:student ratio of 5.5 faculty for every 1 medical student.

Baylor College of Medicine is also one of only 45 medical institutions in the United States to offer a Medical Scientist Training Program. This federally-sponsored and highly-competitive program allows exceptionally well-qualified students to study for a combined MD and PhD in a medical science to be earned in 7-9 total years. Typically, 8-12 students are accepted for this program per year, and receive free tuition in addition to a stipend of $29,000 per academic year along with other benefits.