HMS By the Numbers

• Total faculty: 11,694
• Tenured and tenure-track faculty on the HMS campus in 11 preclinical departments: 184
• Voting faculty on campus and at affiliates: 6,154
• Full-time faculty on campus and at affiliates: 9,649
• Nobel Prizes (cumulative) in Medicine or Physiology, Peace: 10 prizes, 16 recipients
• National Academy of Medicine members (current): 152
• National Academy of Sciences members (current): 80
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (current): 38
  • Investigators: 33
  • Faculty Scholars: 4
  • Professor: 1
• Total MD students: 712
• Total PhD students: 915 (912 HMS, 3 HSDM)
• MD-PhD students: 190: basic sciences 165, social sciences 25 (total included in MD and PhD counts)
• Total DMD students: 140
• Total DMD-PhD: 1 (total included in DMD and PhD counts)
• Total master’s students: 269 (220 HMS, 49 HSDM)
• Total DMSc students: 39
• Trainees: (residents and postdoctoral fellows): 9,255

Students

Entering MD students, 2019

• MD (includes 14 MD–PhD students): 165
• Applicants: 6,815
• Admitted: 227 (3.3%)
• Men: 73 (44%)
• Women: 92 (56%)
• Underrepresented in medicine (African American, Native American, Hispanic, Mexican American): 39 (24%)
• Asian: 45 (27%)

Additional entering students, 2019

• PhD: 165 (165 HMS)
• DMD: 35
• Master’s: 135 (117 HMS, 18 HSDM)
• DMSc: 9
• Additional joint-degree programs: MD-MBA, MD-MPH, MD-MPP
• Medical school alumni: 10,425 (MD and master’s)

As of September 2019

MD Financial Aid (Fiscal Year 2020)

• Average scholarship: $54,129
• Students receiving financial aid (excluding MD–PhD students): 76%
• (2019-20) Students graduating with loans: 110
• (2019-20) Average loan debt at graduation: $99,376
• Range of debt (Class of 2020): $2,394–$282,144

Tuition and Fees (2019–2020)

• Tuition: $63,400
• Fees: $4,978

Tuition and Fees (2020–2021)

• Tuition: $64,984
• Fees: $5,234