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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
2	Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York, NY	1767	$69,363	521	3.91	1.7%	655
14	Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	1782	$69,511	519	3.90	1.8%	844
41	Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine Hanover, NH	1797	$69,772	514	3.66	0.9%	408
56	University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	1807	$72,882	512	3.80	2.2%	644
6	Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT	1810	$70,947	521	3.90	1.4%	554
22	Alpert Medical School at Brown University Providence, RI	1811	$69,894	515	3.82	1.5%	643
43	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, OH	1819	$53,655	515	3.75	2.9%	770
69	University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington, VT	1822	$66,908	510	3.73	1.4%	503
100	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine Charleston, SC	1823	$47,117	510	3.70	4.4%	731
50	George Washington University Medical School Washington, DC	1824	$66,630	513	3.70	1.1%	762
37	Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA	1824	$61,270	514	3.71	2.3%	1,157
23	University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, VA	1827	$63,464	518	3.84	2.4%	680
89	Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Augusta, GA	1828	$60,595	511	3.80	7.6%	993
97	Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA	1834	$71,262	509	3.52	1.1%	796
75	State University of New York Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY	1834	$66,703	512	3.67	3.0%	699
79	Rush Medical College Chicago, IL	1837	$58,958	512	3.58	1.3%	616
107	University of Louisville School of Medicine Louisville, KY	1837	$66,404	508	3.68	3.1%	664
95	Albany Medical College Albany, NY	1838	$57,723	510	3.60	1.0%	590
61	VCU School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Health Sciences Division Richmond, VA	1838	$60,981	512	3.70	2.3%	792
4	New York University School of Medicine New York, NY	1841	$64,040	522	3.93	1.1%	482
20	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, OH	1843	$69,953	518	3.78	2.4%	993
101	University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine Columbia, MO	1845	$79,031	509	3.75	4.1%	497
87	Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	1846	$68,212	510	3.64	3.0%	764
25	Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	1848	$72,079	517	3.69	1.3%	707
57	Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA	1848	$62,089	512	3.64	1.8%	1,130
28	University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI	1850	$62,538	515	3.78	1.6%	787
92	University of Tennessee College of Medicine Memphis, TN	1850	$57,113	510	3.70	5.8%	694
33	Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC	1851	$69,005	512	3.63	1.1%	880
65	New York Medical College Valhalla, NY	1858	$61,585	514	3.60	1.4%	887
63	State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine Brooklyn, NY	1858	$65,866	514	3.75	3.0%	856
98	University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham, AL	1859	$66,095	509	3.77	3.2%	805
12	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL	1859	$66,948	520	3.91	2.0%	747
10	UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, CA	1864	$57,376	517	3.80	1.8%	831
129	Howard University College of Medicine Washington, DC	1867	$55,002	-	-	1.1%	497
108	Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, MI	1868	$67,200	510	3.70	2.9%	1,256
67	University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Iowa City, IA	1869	$58,587	514	3.81	3.6%	675
8	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN	1874	$66,509	-	-	1.3%	453
144	Meharry Medical College School of Medicine Nashville, TN	1876	$57,243	502	3.50	1.2%	497
132	UAMS College of Medicine Little Rock, AR	1879	$68,465	507	3.78	5.6%	704
47	University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC	1879	$62,705	512	3.66	2.9%	889
91	University of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas City, KS	1880	$67,980	510	3.85	6.4%	868
83	University of Nebraska College of Medicine Omaha, NE	1881	$29,385	512	3.84	7.0%	554
59	University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL	1882	$84,812	512	3.60	4.2%	1,362
51	University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora, CO	1883	$67,574	511	3.76	1.3%	793
31	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA	1883	$62,600	517	3.75	1.8%	711
18	Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	1885	$68,487	517	3.70	1.9%	804
13	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	1887	$61,490	518	3.88	1.7%	587
55	Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine Portland, OR	1887	$71,944	509	3.65	1.9%	657
72	University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, MN	1888	$57,018	512	3.70	3.4%	1,038
11	Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	1891	$70,225	522	3.93	2.2%	599
116	The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX	1891	$40,758	512	3.93	3.7%	957
103	Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha, NE	1892	$65,454	511	3.77	3.2%	739
48	Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA	1893	$67,166	514	3.66	1.3%	854
42	University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Irvine, CA	1896	$50,184	515	3.78	1.4%	485
19	Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY	1898	$66,954	518	3.88	1.3%	541
131	University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Oklahoma City, OK	1900	$68,426	510	3.70	5.9%	681
15	Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX	1900	$41,055	518	3.93	2.4%	820
53	Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	1901	$64,322	513	3.84	2.2%	738
39	Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Philadelphia, PA	1901	$58,761	512	3.75	1.5%	873
38	Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC	1902	$63,647	513	3.67	1.3%	599
78	West Virginia University School of Medicine Morgantown, WV	1902	$64,935	509	3.80	2.2%	452
90	Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN	1903	$61,167	510	3.75	5.1%	1,527
142	University of Mississippi School of Medicine Jackson, MS	1903	$34,105	504	3.70	37.0%	679
130	University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Grand Forks,, ND	1905	$65,312	507	3.50	3.5%	292
44	University of Utah School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT	1906	$81,424	514	3.84	3.3%	532
119	Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD	1907	$79,202	509	3.81	6.8%	280
49	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI	1907	$60,069	513	3.77	2.7%	756
1	Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA	1908	$63,747	519	3.89	0.8%	496
121	Loma Linda University School of Medicine Loma Linda,, CA	1909	$66,226	510	3.82	2.6%	753
115	Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science North Chicago, IL	1912	$66,481	510	3.50	1.3%	806
66	Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI	1912	$62,335	510	3.78	2.4%	1,049
36	The Ohio State University College of Medicine Columbus, OH	1914	$56,002	514	3.79	2.5%	892
30	Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA	1915	$53,184	514	3.70	0.9%	651
105	Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Maywood, IL	1915	$64,340	508	3.50	1.1%	713
27	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY	1925	$69,367	514	3.70	1.6%	480
7	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
111	Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans New Orleans, LA	1931	$61,114	509	3.68	4.1%	826
46	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas Dallas, TX	1943	$38,818	515	3.84	3.5%	996
73	University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA	1944	$94,457	510	3.75	2.8%	1,175
143	University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine San Juan, PR	1950	$35,600	503	3.77	10.2%	470
32	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA	1951	$52,830	517	3.85	1.2%	846
45	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL	1952	$50,621	513	3.72	1.8%	889
71	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Newark, NJ	1954	$70,696	514	3.68	2.6%	759
1	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY	1955	$64,807	515	3.81	1.9%	853
29	University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, FL	1956	$48,913	514	3.79	3.0%	622
80	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
93	University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, KY	1960	$74,592	507	3.84	5.3%	807
68	University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, CT	1961	$94,340	-	3.77	2.3%	495
71	Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, NJ	1961	$69,768	514	3.68	2.6%	759
128	University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, NM	1961	$50,422	506	3.74	5.8%	453
62	University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA	1962	$65,962	514	3.77	3.1%	722
24	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY	1963	$63,365	519	3.87	1.4%	642
104	Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey, PA	1963	$52,482	511	3.77	1.2%	669
99	Michigan State University College of Human Medicine East Lansing, MI	1964	$87,218	508	3.71	1.7%	802
88	University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Toledo, OH	1964	$68,936	509	3.67	2.6%	737
54	University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Honolulu, HI	1965	$72,100	511	3.76	2.7%	312
2	Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA	1966	$67,972	-	-	-	-
40	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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