Baylor College of Medicine
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Overview
Founded in 1903, Baylor College of Medicine is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land TX area.
Address
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
www.bcm.edu
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Institutional Control
Baylor College of Medicine is a private not-for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Baylor College of Medicine holds an accreditation from one of the seven regional accreditors, which should ensure that credits earned transfer easily to other schools.
Accreditation History
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges (Accredited January 1, 1970 - present)
  • The accreditation was recently renewed on December 4, 2016.
  • The next accreditation review is scheduled for December 8, 2026.
Programs
Baylor College of Medicine program offerings
What award level are you pursuing?
Professional Degree
Medicine
A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of medicine, involving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses, injuries, and other disorders of the human body. Includes instruction in the basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, examination and diagnosis, patient communications, medical ethics and law, professional standards, and rotations in specialties such as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, neurology, ophthalmology, radiology, clinical pathology, anesthesiology, family medicine, and psychiatry
Note: The name and definition of this program are based on Department of Education CIP code descriptions, which ensures uniform reporting across schools in the US. Please check this school's website for detailed program information and their specific course descriptions._
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Completions in Medicine by award level
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Professional Degree
Baylor College of Medicine graduate program details
Professional Program in Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine, Medical School, Professional Program in Medicine
Award levels: Doctor of Medicine
Financial aid available: Last year 484 students received aid. The types of aid available are:
  • Scholarships
  • Federal work-study aid
  • Institutional Loan
To receive aid, the following form is required: FAFSA
Entrance requirements:
  • MCAT -- Doctorate
  • 90 hours of pre-med course work -- Doctorate
Admissions: The application fee is $90. Last year 5521 students applied for this program. Of those who applied, 6% were admitted, and 55% of those admitted then enrolled. Applications are processed on a rolling basis with these deadlines:
  • Fall applications: November 1
Research: Faculty in this program perform research in medicine.
Recently College Scorecard released data on starting salaries and cumulative federal student debt for each school/program combination with sufficient graduates to allow for privacy concerns with data releases. Shown in the box plots below are data for all schools offering medicine (which may contain several related fields) by award level. If a value is reported for Baylor College of Medicine, then that is shown in blue.
Starting Salaries
$57,866$0$20,000$40,000$60,000$80,000DoctorateProfessional
Cumulative Federal Student Loan Debt
$100,383$0$100,000$200,000$300,000$400,000DoctorateProfessional
Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Baylor College of Medicine. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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Cost
$4,946
$23,220
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Graduate special program costs
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$25,975
$2,690
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Historic Annual Costs
This chart shows an inflation-adjusted view of the costs for general full-time graduate students over time. The shading reflects charges within your comparison group over the same time period. Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in- and out-of-state structure of public universities, and therefore we only compare Baylor College of Medicine to other private schools within your chosen comparison group.
Graduate Assistantships at Baylor College of Medicine
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Baylor College of Medicine does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Baylor College of Medicine by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
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Chart explanation
Baylor College of Medicine
On the blue curve, we see how the published annual cost to attend Baylor College of Medicine has changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the annual cost for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
Customize your context group using the gear at the top of the page!
Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research

A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:

  • How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
  • How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
  • How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.

The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.

Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Baylor College of Medicine compare to other schools?
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Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
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Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor

How much funding does this university have for research in your discipline? This is your primary evidence of nationally-recognized scholarship coming out of this university, and provides a good indicator of the availability of research funding for graduate students and post-docs. You can select bars to drill down into the specific disciplines funded, or further into the sources of that funding. If you hover on the bars, you can see summary details. The dollar amounts reflect the institution's annual spending, inclusive of external grants.

Because this data is collected by the National Science Foundation (NSF), it is focused on traditional science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) disciplines. There are only hints of funding outside of these areas.

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This chart shows the overall funding received by Baylor College of Medicine by broad research field since 2010. If you select a colored bar, you can drill down and see a little more detail about funding in this area.
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External research affiliations
Research affiliations offer extended opportunities for students to engage in specialized and sometimes current, applied, or prestigious research. Baylor College of Medicine has affiliations with the following institutions and organizations to support their research efforts:
  • Texas Children's Hospital (pediatric biomedical research)
  • Harris Health System (biomedical research)
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (biomedical research)
  • National Space Biomedical Research Institute (biomedical research)
  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center (biomedical research)
  • Children's Nutrition Research Center (pediatric nutrition)
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Baylor College of Medicine
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Quality and Quantity of Baylor College of Medicine faculty
Faculty are the heart of a school. Make sure the school you attend has highly-qualified faculty who are regularly in their offices and happy to meet with you.
Full-time faculty overview
The best bachelor’s and graduate programs are generally taught by long-term faculty with tenure, as these instructors typically hold the highest degree possible in their field of expertise. Their commitment to research, their students, and to the school itself should be outstanding. The more green in the chart, the more long-term faculty are available to offer you steady classroom quality.
Learn more about the bars in this chart

Traditionally, the long-term faculty at a school are hired as Assistant Professors. After about six years, they then advance to the Associate Professor level after proving excellence in three areas: teaching, service to the institution, and significant contributions to their field of expertise. Assistant professors who are not promoted to the Associate level are usually required to leave the school. The rank of Professor is reserved for senior faculty who have demonstrated the highest standing in those three areas. The standards of excellence differ widely across institutions; nonetheless, the presence of a large proportion of faculty in the three professor ranks suggests you will be taught by faculty who are invested in their academic fields and in the school. Generally, instructors with any of the three professor titles will hold the highest possible (terminal) degree in their academic fields.

The instructor/lecturer positions are generally held by full-time faculty who are focused on teaching alone, often for lower-level classes. These positions usually require some advanced education or experience, but not the highest (terminal) degree in a given academic field. Those teaching with no academic rank may be hired to teach in mostly non-academic fields, giving skills- or vocation-based guidance.

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Context: Percentage of full-time faculty
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and most likely to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Baylor College of Medicine performs better in this measure than 90% of the context schools.
Read more about why you want mostly full-time faculty teaching you
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Context: Full-time faculty with long-term employment contracts
Faculty with multi-year contracts have a mutual commitment with their school, and they provide curricular stability and knowledge that contribute to meaningful classes for students.
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Faculty Diversity
Here's an opportunity to explore the faculty's diversity. For many schools, attracting a diverse teaching faculty can be a challenge. It's important to judge their success with the reality check of what their peer schools have accomplished.
An overview of faculty race and gender
Here the bars show faculty rank, with male faculty to the left and female faculty to the right. The race/origin of faculty are shown by color. The view with rank is important because many of our elite schools have a problem with diversity at the higher faculty ranks. Are women and minorities being promoted at Baylor College of Medicine?
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Student Body
Study Types
Almost all students are full-time. There are no students who take all courses via distance education, but 4% take some courses online.
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Context: Student body size
Baylor College of Medicine enrolled 1,648 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than 98% of the context schools.
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Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Baylor College of Medicine students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Gratduate student race/origin
Baylor College of Medicine reports that 39% of students are minority, which is more than 80% of the context schools. This school's 13% of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Context: Percentage of women
With 55% women , Baylor College of Medicine ranks near the middle of context schools in its percentage of women students.
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Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Baylor College of Medicine compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
4%47%10%25%0%0%0%1%13%0%20%40%60%80%Pacific IslanderAmerican IndianMultiracialNot ReportedBlackHispanicInternationalAsianWhite
Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
Age range
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School Finances
Baylor College of Medicine: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Research spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Chart explanation
Baylor College of Medicine
On the blue curve, we see how the instructional expenses per student at Baylor College of Medicine have changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the instructional expenses per student for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
All values have been adjusted for inflation. Customize your context group using the gear at the top of the page!
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?

Baylor College of Medicine is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.

Baylor College of Medicine has an endowment of $1,198,192,584. Colleges and universities with huge endowments generally have their annual performance dominated by investment successes and failures, and fluctuations tend to be outside of the range of other schools. Under the following endowment section, you can check whether their endowment is generally stable, which is the true measure of financial stability for schools in this class.

Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Baylor College of Medicine into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot. Note that Baylor College of Medicine operates a hospital, and those expenses and revenues (shown in brown) can dwarf other budget items.
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Investment gains
Hospital revenue
Auxiliary revenue
Tuition and fees revenue
Government appropriations etc.
Private and capital gifts
Educational sales revenue
Other revenue
Investment losses
Hospital expenses
Auxilliary expenses
Instructional expenses
Student services expenses
Academic support expenses
Institutional support expenses
Research expenses
Public service expenses
Other expenses
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The power of a large endowment
Related to the previous question of whether the annual revenue stream is stable is the question, "How deep are this school's pockets?" For many schools, a major source of annual income is investment growth. Schools with large endowments have a built-in revenue stream, although you'll see in the accompanying graphs that this revenue stream is highly dependent on the nation's economy. You can choose how to examine the depth of Baylor College of Medicine's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Total Endowment
Endowment Growth Rate
Net Assets Per Student

Here we examine assets at Baylor College of Medicine in context, and it seems most fair to adjust for the size of the institution. We examine the assets per full-time-equivalent student so that we level the playing field for size.

There's a catch to these assets, though. Many gifts to a school's endowment have strings attached; the money is restricted to a specific purpose. Assets shown in green below are unrestricted, and are very important to a school's ability to meet its financial obligations. Some assets are the land and buildings that a school must have in order to function, and these may appear as green (unrestricted assets) but are nonetheless less helpful in meeting annual financial commitments. This look at assets is only a piece of the puzzle as we decide if a school is stable.

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Context: 2019 net assets per student