year found LECOM climbing to #5 for Primary Care graduates and #3 for lowest tuition.
LECOM CONTINUES TO SHINE AS U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MEDICAL COLLEGES
With the 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranking, LECOM moved to #2 for lowest tuition, remaining #5 for Primary Care graduates and #1 for size. The Primary Care graduation ranking is based upon a percentage of graduates who enter primary care. With a class size of more than 500 medical graduates, LECOM (using a straight number calculation) actually graduates the most Primary Care physicians as compared to all schools. This year, once again, LECOM was ranked fourth nationally for producing the most Primary Care residents. With one of the most affordable tuition costs offered by highly regarded medical colleges, LECOM additionally boasts a faculty-student ratio of four to one. The medical school has 2,447 full- and part-time faculty on staff. For the class of 2013, well over half of the graduates from the medical school at LECOM who applied to residency programs were admitted to their first choice.
The 2014 edition of U.S. News and World Report: Best Medical College Rankings shows LECOM continues to improve its reputation among the nation’s leading medical schools. #1 Medical Colleges Over 1000 Students #2 Lowest Tuition Among Private Medical Colleges #2 Most Applied-to Medical Colleges #4 Colleges Graduating the Most Primary Care Physicians #51for Primary Care rankings among all medical colleges
U.S. News and World Report has released its Best Medical School rankings for 2014 - and standing out prominently at the top, is the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is no stranger to noteworthy U.S. News and World Report rankings. The magazine contacts 153 medical colleges for its annual ranking process. This year, 144 of those schools contacted replied both to the Research and to the Primary Care ranking surveys. The Report, read across the span of several years, serves as an overt analysis of the resounding success and growth of LECOM. In 2007, LECOM was listed at 115 in the overall Primary Care ranking; and the school placed in the top ten for the rate of Primary Care graduates (#9). LECOM was recognized for the fifth lowest tuition among private medical schools. That year also found LECOM ranked as the fifth largest medical school in the country. At that time, (during the 2006 academic year), LECOM Bradenton had only three classes of medical students in session.
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine has been steadily climbing the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Among all medical colleges, LECOM rose from #63 in 2011 to #51 in 2014. LECOM still boasts the second lowest tuition cost and it is the very lowest in cost of non-government subsidized private medical colleges. LECOM recognition by peers, college deans, and hospital Directors of Medical Education (DMEs), continues to grow robustly. Consistently, LECOM has been graduating primary care physicians, offering the lowest tuition among private medical schools, and placing among the top schools for attracting applicants. Of the top ten medical colleges receiving the most applications, LECOM ranked second. There are several implicit messages gained by reviewing the facts and figures offered in the U.S. News and World Report. It is clear that osteopathic medical education is in the health care vanguard and it is doubly clear that LECOM offers an estimably ranked and superlative medical education at an affordable cost. Echoing a maxim oft stated by Benjamin Franklin: “if you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone” indeed a truism as applied to LECOM.
In 2008, with the final Bradenton class matriculation, LECOM moved to #1 as the largest medical school in the nation. That same @1LECOM | LECOM CONNECTION 25