medical school tuition

Many fight hard to get into medical school, but what comes after the acceptance letter (and the immense joy it brings) is the dread of financing the coming four years. Tuition, living expenses, books, USMLE fees - the list goes on! Finding a way to pay off the huge amount of tuition and fees while also maintaining your grades, passing USMLEs, balancing your social life, and saving lives can be quite overwhelming. And to top it off - there is a lack of resources to help you make the right financial decision. But that's where we come in!

There are 155 accredited U.S. allopathic medical schools (including those in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands). Adding in accredited Canadian and osteopathic medical schools, for which there are 17 and 38 respectively, yields a whopping total of 210 medical schools. Applying to all these schools would cost an exorbitant amount of money (not to mention time and energy). So, how do you go about carefully picking what medical schools to apply to?

Most advice steers you towards loans. Loans. Loans. More loans. Would you like a side of loans with your medical education? Or are you willing to donate a kidney? It's much harder to find resources that solely focus on loan-free ways of paying for medical school. While we recognize that graduating from a medical school with zero debt cannot be the case for everyone, we believe that all students have the potential to graduate with a manageable amount of debt. Here's a list of ways to help you pay for medical school without going broke!

Pretend you’re the dean of a brand new medical school. You’ve got a lot to build: a campus, a faculty, and a team to help you run the school. You’ve got to get accredited, raise money from donors, and recruit people to join you on this mission.