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About BCM
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Fast Facts & Figures

Historical Snapshot

  • Founded in 1900 as the University of Dallas Medical Department
  • Affiliated with Baylor University in 1903
  • Moved from Dallas to Houston in 1943
  • In 1969, Baylor College of Medicine became an independent institution

Site

Located in Houston's Texas Medical Center, a 1,000-acre complex of 47 independent institutions

Highlights

  • Ranked 17th overall among the nation's top medical schools for research and for primary care in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools 2010
  • Ranked 13th among U.S. medical schools for research funding from the National Institutes of Health
  • Ranked 1st among all Texas colleges, universities, and medical schools in federal funding for research and development
  • Ranked 2nd in the nation in federal funding for research and development in the biological sciences at universities and colleges
  • Is the only private medical school in the greater southwest
  • Has 25 departments and more than 90 research and patient-care centers
  • Total research support: $323 million ($255 million from federal sources)
  • $52.8 million in federal stimulus research funding
  • $11.5 million in first round funding from CPRIT, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, which was established in 2007 with a commitment of $3 billion to fund groundbreaking cancer research prevention programs and services in Texas over the next 10 years

Faculty

  • Full-time 1,685
  • Part-time 427
  • Voluntary 1,789
  • Emeritus 61

Staff

  • Full-time 3,791
  • Part-time 553

Trainees

  • Medical school 693
  • Graduate school 583
  • Allied Health 150
  • Postdoctoral fellows 911
  • Resident physicians 943

Alumni

  • Medical 7,447 (3,475 living in Texas)
  • Resident Physicians 6,727 (2,673 living in Texas)
  • Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 1,359
  • Allied Health 2,086

Affiliate Hospitals

  • Ben Taub General Hospital, Harris County Hospital District
  • Quentin Mease Community Hospital, Harris County Hospital District
  • Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
  • Texas Children's Hospital
  • Memorial Hermann - The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
  • The Menninger Clinic
  • The Methodist Hospital

Statistics for New Students, 2009-2010

Medical School

  • 186 students enrolled
  • 86 men
  • 100 women
  • 119 graduated from Texas colleges and universities
  • 67 graduated from other U.S. colleges and universities
  • 41 underrepresented in medicine
  • Average undergraduate GPA: 3.83
  • Average MCAT score: 11.14 (15-point scale)

School of Allied Health

  • 55 students enrolled (physician assistant and nurse anesthesia programs)
  • 12 men
  • 43 women
  • 39 Texas residents
  • 16 non-Texas residents
  • Average GPA: 3.5

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

  • 100 students enrolled
  • 38 men
  • 62 women
  • 15 graduated from Texas colleges and universities
  • 48 graduated from other U.S. colleges and universities
  • 37 graduated from foreign colleges and universities
  • Average GPA: 3.58

Last modified: April 14, 2010