Northwestern University (Feinberg)

Medical School Overview

U.S. News Rankings

Ranking score and category

Research rank Category Name #19 Best Research

Ranking score and category

Primary care rank Category Name #41 Best Primary Care

Specialties Locked in AIDS Locked in Internal medicine Locked in Pediatrics Locked in Women's Health

Medical School Overview

Students at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago never receive letter grades. Instead, first and second year students are graded on a pass/fail basis, and third and fourth year students receive grades of honors, high pass, pass, and fail. Three afternoons a week are blocked off for optional activities. The Feinberg School of Medicine also offers various graduate research programs, including an M.D./M.M. program, which grants a doctor of medicine degree and a master of management degree through the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in five years, and a 27-month long physical therapy program.

There are more than 50 organizations for Feinberg students to join, from the Musicians in Music club, which performs at local hospitals and healthcare centers, and Jugulars, the school’s official juggling club. The School of Medicine is located in the Chicago neighborhood of Streeterville, and students can live on or off campus. (More than 70 percent choose to find housing off campus.)

Notable alumni of the Feinberg School of Medicine include Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, and Debi Thomas, an orthopedic surgeon who won a bronze medal for figure skating in the 1988 Olympics.

Admissions

Application deadline	September 3
Application fee	$85
AMCAS application accepted	Yes

Academics

Full-time faculty	1,746
Full-time faculty-student ratio	2.5 - High

Student Body

Total medical school enrollment	712
Gender distribution

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $44,693
Required fees	$2,766

Residency

Graduates admitted to their first-choice residency program	N/A
Most popular residency and specialty programs (2009 and 2010 classes)
anesthesiology orthopaedic surgery emergency medicine pediatrics family practice radiology - diagnostic internal medicine surgery - general obstetrics and gynecology urology

* Medical School Overview details based on 2010 data