SMUer wrote:SMU desperately needs a medical school. To grow in prestige we need to show substantial research dollars pumping into the school and a great way to do that is to attract science researchers. Fed grants are a major factor in most college ranking algorithms, and necessary for qualifying for the AAU.
Rice has a joint program with Baylor to offer a 6-year med degree program (2 years UG 4 years Med). We should set this up with Baylor or UTSW as a minimum. What we really need are research buildings and high prestige research professors writing fantastic grants. Perhaps we can buy portions of Baylor or build facilities in Plano. It's sad that UTD has better science research going on its campus.
You're right. I was misinformed. It's an eight year program with guaranteed admission. Still beats the pants off what SMU pre-meds have. Many schools do offer accelerated 6 year programs. My point was that we need a medical research building, not special programming.
It's sad that UTD has better science research going on its campus.
The institute that became UTD used to be housed on SMU's campus. SMU wasn't interested so they left and found a new home in Richardson. Eventually, the state took it over. At the time, SMU did not want to become a "tech" school.
