NYU School of Medicine Requirements, Tuition, and More

We’re covering everything you need to know as you consider applying to NYU School of Medicine. You’ll learn about acceptance rates, application deadlines, average MCAT scores, tuition, curriculum, and more.

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Founded in 1841 as the University Medical College, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine is known for pioneering disciplines like pediatrics, forensic medicine, surgery, and psychiatry. Located in the Langone Medical Center on the East Side of Manhattan, the institution offers M.D., PhD, dual-degree programs, and is highly respected for its drug and alcohol abuse and AIDS treatment programs.
As of 2018, the institution offers every MD student a groundbreaking full-tuition scholarship (worth $56,272) regardless of merit or financial status. To help cover additional living expenses and the cost of books and materials, students are encouraged to apply for federal or institutional loans.
Students interested in a deep and rich student-life experience will be pleased to find that NYU School of Medicine boasts more than 70 student clubs including the Chamber Musicians in Medicine, Classical Arts Appreciation, and Physicians for Human Rights organizations. Students wishing to form their own student club or activity are encouraged to do so. Also worth noting is that a number of national organizations—including the American Medical Students Association, the American Medical Women’s Association, and the NYU Physicians for a National Health Program—run chapters at the institution, which students can choose to join.
NYU School of Medicine students who have completed one semester of coursework and are in exceptional academic standing are encouraged to enrich their studies by applying to the School of Medicine Honors Program. This program pairs students with a faculty mentor who works alongside students as they develop an honors research project and write and defend a thesis. NYU School of Medicine also offers several Global Health Initiatives, which take students abroad to research and participate in public health and clinical education service.

NYU School of Medicine trains students through a flexible MD degree curriculum known as Curriculum for the 21st Century (C21). C21 curriculum is patient-centered, disease-focused, and designed to bridge concepts learned in the classroom with real-life experience. To that end, students reinforce classroom concepts with daily patient contact, and both online and live simulation exercises at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences at Bellevue Hospital. There, students “treat” interactive adult and child mannequins that breathe, speak, blink, and display vital signs. Also available are a wide variety of partial task trainers, which give students the opportunity to practice procedures on the head, airway, neck, chest, abdomen, spine, pelvis, and other extremities. With the help of more than 50 cameras and microphones that are set up to capture student simulations, audio and video are always available to aid faculty and students in assessment and debriefing sessions.
NYU School of Medicine offers an accelerated three-year MD pathway program, allowing students to earn their degrees in less time and at a reduced cost. This is ideal for students who already know what kind of physician they want to become or wish to begin their specialty training early. There are a few ways students enter the three-year MD pathway:

• Prospective students may apply when they submit their MD application
• Students who have already earned a PhD from another institution may choose a three-year course of study during their first year of training—or halfway through the clerkship year
• NYU PhD students may apply to the three-year pathway once they complete their PhD

Although training in the three-year program is accelerated, it is identical to that offered in the conventional four-year MD program.
The MD curriculum consists of four stages:
Stage one features 18 months of interdisciplinary pre-clerkship modules in biology, anatomy, and physiology. Coursework is taken in tandem with a hands-on Practice of Medicine module that allows students to work with patients in a clinical learning environment.
Stage two, core clerkships, begins in January of the second year—six months earlier than students at most any other medical school. Because of this, students have time to explore specialization through their choice of selective and elective courses in autism, breast surgery, the cardiac system, chronic illness, adolescent psychiatry, and more.
Stage three occurs in January of the third year of study and gives students six months to begin a scholarly concentration, further explore specialty and subspecialties, take NYU School of Medicine’s comprehensive clinical skills exam, and prepare for the United States Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE).
Stage four involves 11 months of career-preparation activities, including rotations in a critical care clerkship and a sub-internship. Students are also given time to prepare for their residency interviews, finish clinical elective courses, finalize scholarly concentrations, and take the USMLE.
In addition to the MD track, New York University School of Medicine offers four- and five-year dual MD/master’s degree programs in:
MPA in Health Policy and Management – this 45-credit program gives students critical perspectives on the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the healthcare industry.
MPH in Global Health – this 40-credit program offers courses in social and behavioral science, community and international health, epidemiology, public health, and public management.
MS in Translational Research – this 32-credit program consists of courses in research design, biostatistics, epidemiology, drug design, and grant writing. Students will also complete a research project under the supervision of a faculty mentor.
MA in Bioethics – this 32-credit program is ideal for students who wish to pursue ethical issues in hospitals or medical schools, or those who wish to serve as public policy consultants or bioethics researchers.
MBA in General Management – this 51-credit program is comprised of courses in communications, statistics and data analysis, and financial accounting and reporting. Students also complete a capstone course in which they explore professional responsibility or ethical and legal challenges of the modern corporation.

After more than a century and a half in medical education, it should come as no surprise that NYU School of University has made a huge impact. Among its medical contributions are:

• Influenced the legalization of human dissection
• Discovered that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes
• Conducted the first successful resection of a hip joint
• Completed groundbreaking studies of enzymes involved in blood clotting, leading to the development of streptokinase, used to combat heart attacks
• Presented evidence linking Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, with immune deficiency in homosexual men—a breakthrough step in identifying AIDS

• Dermatology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Gynecology
• Research
• Oncology
• Radiology

NYU School of Medicine’s student body is made up of 55% women, 20% students underrepresented in medicine, and 21% in-state students. 

NYU School of Medicine offers a full-tuition scholarship to every student regardless of merit or financial need. This amounts to a scholarship of $56,272 per year for each student. The institution does require students to carry medical insurance and to pay for additional fees and living expenses.


Here is the application cycle for NYU School of Medicine:

• May – June: Register for the CASPer exam
• July: NYU School of Medicine begins sending interview invitations
• September: Multiple mini interviews begin
• October 15: Primary applications due
• November 15: Secondary applications due
• December: Multiple mini interviews continue
• December 15: Tertiary applications due
• January: Applicants notified of admissions decision

The application fee is $100.

Students accepted to NYU School of Medicine in 2019 had a median undergraduate GPA of 3.96 (with a range of 3.47-4.0) and a median MCAT score of 522 (with a range of 510-527).

In 2019, graduating students at NYU School of Medicine received residency matches in a variety of specialties. The most popular were:

• Emergency Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Medicine – Preliminary
• Neurology
• Ophthalmology
• Pediatrics

Students most commonly matched with residency programs at the following institutions:

• NYU School of Medicine
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
• Yale New Haven Hospital
• Montefiore Medical Center
• University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals