A Glimpse at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Deeply rooted in its educational goal of providing quality medical, research and nursing education to its students, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, together with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care, is a vibrant academic medical center characterized by achievements and progress in a number of areas.

Assistant Professor of Medicine Eric Alper, MD, reviews an xray with medical school students on roundsHow We Rank

UMMS is consistently ranked in the top ten percent of the nation’s 125 medical schools by weekly news magazine U.S. News & World Report in its much-anticipated annual review entitled “America ’s Best Graduate Schools.” In 2005, UMMS ranked 4th in the increasingly competitive “Primary Care” schools category and has held a spot near the top of the category since the magazine began its rankings in 1994.

UMass Medical School was also ranked 46th in the US News list of research schools. Beyond its core mission of distinction in medical education, the past decade has seen UMMS explode onto the national scene as a major center for research. The institution also ranks near the top among public medical schools in the Northeast in the amount of funding awarded by the National Institutes of Health.  Federal and private research grants and contracts at UMMS rose from about $2 million in 1977 to more than $175 million in 2006, making it one of the fastest-growing research institutions in the U.S.


The Graduate School of Nursing's Summer Enrichment Program2006 Facts & Figures

FY ’06 Funding and Revenue

State appropriation -- $40.8 million

State contracts*-- $35.3 million&

Public Service-- $334 million

Research -- $166.7 million

Sales and Services** -- $114.8 million

Other Revenue -- $47.3 million

Total $738.9 million

*Provide mental health and pediatric services for those who cannot afford private care

**Examples are continuing education and student fees, biologic labs and newborn screening programs and other non-state revenue sources.

 

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Number of Faculty (Including Voluntary Faculty)

  • 323 Basic science full- and part-time faculty
  • 2,165 Clinical full- and part-time faculty

School of Medicine 

  • 404 MD Students
  • 19 MD/PhD Students
  • 2,742 Alumni
  • 526 Residents and Fellows

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 

  • 320 PhD students
  • 18 MD/PhD students
  • 7 Biomedical Engineering w/Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
  • 9 Clinical & Population Health Research students
  • 303 Alumni

Graduate School of Nursing

  • 49 MS students 
  • 119 GEP students
  • 1 Post master's student
  • 26 PhD students
  • 641 Alumni 

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