Health & pre-med fields at Maryland
Maryland graduates about 483 pre-med & health fields majors a year, 6% of its graduating class. That puts it 26th of 543 schools we score for pre-med & health fields, a standout program at 86 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $72,000 four years out, 1.22× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $424 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around Maryland
Where pre-med & health fields happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: School of Public Health, Computer Science Instructional Center, Animal Science Service Building, Plant Science Building, Biosciences Research Building, UMD Health Center, Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Physical Science & Technology, Biomolecular Sciences, Physical Sciences Complex.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 109 · Dining 11 · Student housing 8 · Dorm 8 · Athletics 6 · Arts 4.
Nearby in the pre-med & health fields ranking
Other strong majors at Maryland
- Computer science 90 · #33
- Economics 89 · #39
- Engineering (all) 89 · #32
- Math & statistics 88 · #42
- Political science & IR 87 · #47
- Physics & astronomy 87 · #38
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Maryland with every school we score in pre-med & health fields. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.