Points of Distinction

School of Medicine

  • U.S. News: KU Med Center is nation's most popular medical school

    The University of Kansas is the nation's most popular medical school, according to an analysis of yield data by U.S. News and World Report.

    A school's yield is the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll in the program. At KUMC, 82.2 percent of the accepted students chose to attend in fall 2010. At the University of Nevada-Reno, 81.6 percent of those accepted did enroll for fall 2010.

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  • School of Medicine among top 5 "social mission" medical schools

    KU's School of Medicine ranks 5th among the country's 141 medical schools in a study on how well medical schools meet their social mission to train doctors to care for the nation's patients.

    The George Washington University researchers who created the study defined social mission in three ways: the percentage of graduates practicing primary care, the number of graduates from underrepresented minorities, and how many work in areas with shortages of health professionals. The study tracked 6,000 medical students.

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  • U.S. News ranks 3 graduate programs in medicine; public health No. 2 among public universities

    A graduate community health program at the School of Medicine — the master of public health — ranks 6th among public and private schools combined, according to U.S. News and World Report.

    U.S. News said the program is tied for No. 2 among public university programs. U.S. News also ranked KU’s health care management master’s degree program 22nd and primary care 30th among public university programs.

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  • Intellectual disabilities research center wins $7 million grant

    The Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center has been awarded a five-year, $7 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The highly competitive award allows the University of Kansas to provide administrative, scientific and technical infrastructure to support the work of 103 research scientists at the Lawrence and Medical Center campuses as well as at the new Children’s Campus of Kansas City.

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