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Founded in 1765, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest medical school in United States and Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, founded in 1767, is the second oldest medical school.

Below statements summarize the average statistics including medical schools tuition and admission data for the top 10 Oldest Medical Schools. You can compare all medical schools in one table with GAP, MCAT, admission, and tuition information at medical school comparison page.

The average medical school tuition & fees is $61,378 and, among Oldest Medical Schools, University of Washington School of Medicine has the highest tuition & fees of $94,457 and University of Nebraska College of Medicine has the lowest tuition & fees of $29,385.
The average MCAT score is 512 and, among Oldest Medical Schools, New York University School of Medicine has the highest MCAT score of 522 and Meharry Medical College School of Medicine has the lowest score of 502.
The average acceptance rate is 3.52% and, among Oldest Medical Schools, Stanford University School of Medicine has the tightest (lowest) rate of 1% and University of Mississippi School of Medicine has the loosest (highest) rate of 37%.
The average medical school population is 616 and, among Oldest Medical Schools, Indiana University School of Medicine has the most students of 1,527 and Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota has the fewest students of 280.

Oldest Medical Schools

The below table compares the 100 Oldest Medical Schools. You can sort the table by touching/clicking the column title that you want to sort.

Rank	College Name	Founded	Tuition & Fees	MCAT Score	GPA	Acceptance Rate	Student Population
5	Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	1765	$69,263	521	3.89	2.1%	780
4	Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York, NY	1767	$69,363	521	3.91	1.7%	655
12	Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	1782	$69,511	519	3.90	1.8%	844
36	Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine Hanover, NH	1797	$69,772	514	3.66	0.9%	408
62	University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	1807	$72,882	512	3.80	2.2%	644
3	Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT	1810	$70,947	521	3.90	1.4%	554
27	Alpert Medical School at Brown University Providence, RI	1811	$69,894	515	3.82	1.5%	643
34	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, OH	1819	$53,655	515	3.75	2.9%	770
88	University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington, VT	1822	$66,908	510	3.73	1.4%	503
97	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine Charleston, SC	1823	$47,117	510	3.70	4.4%	731
52	George Washington University Medical School Washington, DC	1824	$66,630	513	3.70	1.1%	762
46	Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA	1824	$61,270	514	3.71	2.3%	1,157
16	University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, VA	1827	$63,464	518	3.84	2.4%	680
83	Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Augusta, GA	1828	$60,595	511	3.80	7.6%	993
113	Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA	1834	$71,262	509	3.52	1.1%	796
73	State University of New York Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY	1834	$66,703	512	3.67	3.0%	699
72	Rush Medical College Chicago, IL	1837	$58,958	512	3.58	1.3%	616
119	University of Louisville School of Medicine Louisville, KY	1837	$66,404	508	3.68	3.1%	664
92	Albany Medical College Albany, NY	1838	$57,723	510	3.60	1.0%	590
69	VCU School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Health Sciences Division Richmond, VA	1838	$60,981	512	3.70	2.3%	792
1	New York University School of Medicine New York, NY	1841	$64,040	522	3.93	1.1%	482
17	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, OH	1843	$69,953	518	3.78	2.4%	993
108	University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine Columbia, MO	1845	$79,031	509	3.75	4.1%	497
100	Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	1846	$68,212	510	3.64	3.0%	764
21	Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	1848	$72,079	517	3.69	1.3%	707
70	Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA	1848	$62,089	512	3.64	1.8%	1,130
30	University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI	1850	$62,538	515	3.78	1.6%	787
98	University of Tennessee College of Medicine Memphis, TN	1850	$57,113	510	3.70	5.8%	694
66	Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC	1851	$69,005	512	3.63	1.1%	880
48	New York Medical College Valhalla, NY	1858	$61,585	514	3.60	1.4%	887
44	State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine Brooklyn, NY	1858	$65,866	514	3.75	3.0%	856
106	University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham, AL	1859	$66,095	509	3.77	3.2%	805
7	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL	1859	$66,948	520	3.91	2.0%	747
20	UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, CA	1864	$57,376	517	3.80	1.8%	831
1	Howard University College of Medicine Washington, DC	1867	$55,002	-	-	1.1%	497
95	Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, MI	1868	$67,200	510	3.70	2.9%	1,256
39	University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Iowa City, IA	1869	$58,587	514	3.81	3.6%	675
2	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN	1874	$66,509	-	-	1.3%	453
141	Meharry Medical College School of Medicine Nashville, TN	1876	$57,243	502	3.50	1.2%	497
127	UAMS College of Medicine Little Rock, AR	1879	$68,465	507	3.78	5.6%	704
74	University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC	1879	$62,705	512	3.66	2.9%	889
89	University of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City, KS	1880	$67,980	510	3.85	6.4%	868
65	University of Nebraska College of Medicine Omaha, NE	1881	$29,385	512	3.84	7.0%	554
77	University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL	1882	$84,812	512	3.60	4.2%	1,362
76	University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO	1883	$67,574	511	3.76	1.3%	793
22	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA	1883	$62,600	517	3.75	1.8%	711
23	Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	1885	$68,487	517	3.70	1.9%	804
15	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	1887	$61,490	518	3.88	1.7%	587
110	Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine Portland, OR	1887	$71,944	509	3.65	1.9%	657
71	University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, MN	1888	$57,018	512	3.70	3.4%	1,038
2	Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	1891	$70,225	522	3.93	2.2%	599
58	The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX	1891	$40,758	512	3.93	3.7%	957
82	Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha, NE	1892	$65,454	511	3.77	3.2%	739
41	Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA	1893	$67,166	514	3.66	1.3%	854
28	University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Irvine, CA	1896	$50,184	515	3.78	1.4%	485
13	Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY	1898	$66,954	518	3.88	1.3%	541
99	University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Oklahoma City, OK	1900	$68,426	510	3.70	5.9%	681
14	Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX	1900	$41,055	518	3.93	2.4%	820
51	Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	1901	$64,322	513	3.84	2.2%	738
60	Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Philadelphia, PA	1901	$58,761	512	3.75	1.5%	873
56	Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC	1902	$63,647	513	3.67	1.3%	599
103	West Virginia University School of Medicine Morgantown, WV	1902	$64,935	509	3.80	2.2%	452
94	Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN	1903	$61,167	510	3.75	5.1%	1,527
138	University of Mississippi School of Medicine Jackson, MS	1903	$34,105	504	3.70	37.0%	679
132	University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Grand Forks,, ND	1905	$65,312	507	3.50	3.5%	292
37	University of Utah School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT	1906	$81,424	514	3.84	3.3%	532
107	Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD	1907	$79,202	509	3.81	6.8%	280
54	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI	1907	$60,069	513	3.77	2.7%	756
8	Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA	1908	$63,747	519	3.89	0.8%	496
86	Loma Linda University School of Medicine Loma Linda,, CA	1909	$66,226	510	3.82	2.6%	753
102	Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science North Chicago, IL	1912	$66,481	510	3.50	1.3%	806
90	Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI	1912	$62,335	510	3.78	2.4%	1,049
38	The Ohio State University College of Medicine Columbus, OH	1914	$56,002	514	3.79	2.5%	892
35	Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA	1915	$53,184	514	3.70	0.9%	651
121	Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Maywood, IL	1915	$64,340	508	3.50	1.1%	713
42	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY	1925	$69,367	514	3.70	1.6%	480
11	University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Chicago, IL	1927	$59,052	519	3.84	1.2%	430
9	Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC	1930	$69,756	519	3.88	1.4%	584
114	Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans New Orleans, LA	1931	$61,114	509	3.68	4.1%	826
31	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas Dallas, TX	1943	$38,818	515	3.84	3.5%	996
93	University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA	1944	$94,457	510	3.75	2.8%	1,175
139	University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine San Juan, PR	1950	$35,600	503	3.77	10.2%	470
19	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA	1951	$52,830	517	3.85	1.2%	846
55	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL	1952	$50,621	513	3.72	1.8%	889
49	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ	1954	$70,696	514	3.68	2.6%	759
29	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY	1955	$64,807	515	3.81	1.9%	853
40	University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, FL	1956	$48,913	514	3.79	3.0%	622
26	UT Health San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine San Antonio, TX	1959	$39,755	516	3.82	3.3%	891
125	University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, KY	1960	$74,592	507	3.84	5.3%	807
145	University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, CT	1961	$94,340	-	3.77	2.3%	495
50	Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, NJ	1961	$69,768	514	3.68	2.6%	759
133	University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, NM	1961	$50,422	506	3.74	5.8%	453
43	University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA	1962	$65,962	514	3.77	3.1%	722
10	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY	1963	$63,365	519	3.87	1.4%	642
75	Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey, PA	1963	$52,482	511	3.77	1.2%	669
116	Michigan State University College of Human Medicine East Lansing, MI	1964	$87,218	508	3.71	1.7%	802
112	University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Toledo, OH	1964	$68,936	509	3.67	2.6%	737
81	University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Honolulu, HI	1965	$72,100	511	3.76	2.7%	312
3	Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA	1966	$67,972	-	-	-	-
79	University of California, Davis School of Medicine Sacramento, CA	1966	$54,893	511	3.70	1.4%	536
	Average	-	$61,378	512	3.73	3.5%	616

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