MD Medical Schools in Maryland
3 allopathic MD programs in our catalogue for Maryland. Use the profiles below to compare MCAT medians, GPA ranges, in-state preference, and AMCAS strategy.
About Maryland: Pop. ~6.2M; Baltimore metro (~2.9M) and the DC suburbs form the core medical training corridor. Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical System are among the nation's top academic health systems.
In-state preference: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is a private school admitting nationally with no in-state preference. University of Maryland School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (combined programs) have moderate in-state preference. University of Maryland Dental School similarly favours Maryland residents.
Major health systems: Johns Hopkins Medicine · University of Maryland Medical System · MedStar Health · Adventist HealthCare · Lifebridge Health
3 MD Programs in Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (MD)
Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, founded in 1893, is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern American medical education. It pioneered the model of full-time faculty, bedside clinical teaching, and research-integrated medical training. Located at the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus in East Baltimore, the school benefits from one of the largest funded biomedical research programmes in the United States.
MCAT 522GPA 3.931.8% acceptance - USU Hébert School of Medicine (MD)
Bethesda, MD
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, founded in 1972, is a federal medical school under the US Department of Defense located in Bethesda, Maryland. It is the sole institution dedicated to training physicians for careers in the US military medical services across all branches — Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Public Health Service. Students are commissioned officers throughout medical school and receive full federal tuition coverage plus a military salary. USU graduates serve the most medically complex and operationally demanding patient populations in the world, from combat casualty care to disaster medicine to occupational and aerospace medicine.
MCAT 513GPA 3.734.5% acceptance - University of Maryland School of Medicine (MD)
Baltimore, MD
The University of Maryland School of Medicine, established in 1807, is the oldest public medical school in the US and one of the most research-intensive public medical schools in the country. Located in Baltimore on the University of Maryland Baltimore campus, the school benefits from close integration with the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) — anchored by the internationally renowned R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center — and one of the highest levels of NIH funding among public medical schools. UMSOM's Institute of Human Virology (IHV) is a world leader in HIV/AIDS research and global health, giving the school distinctive strength in infectious disease.
MCAT 515GPA 3.782.5% acceptanceModerate in-state pref.
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