University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
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APPLICATION FEE
$95
Tuition In State
$61,812
Tuition Out of State
$61,812
Average GPA
3.94
AVERAGE MCAT
521
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School Overview
- Degrees
- MD
- Ownership
- Private Non-Profit
- Program Length
- 4 years
- Total Enrollment
- 90
- Founding Year
- 1927
- Accreditation Year
- 1942
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SDN Insights
Cost of Attendance: $438,349
Estimate repayment
Estimated loan burden for U-of-C using 4 years of in-state tuition, $1,500 annual fees, $3,000 monthly living expenses, government-derived local cost-of-living adjustment, $1,000 loan fees, and an 8.5% interest assumption.
Cost of Living: Near national average cost of living
Chicago, IL is close to the national average for cost of living. In the debt estimate, the government-derived local cost adjustment keeps the $3,000 monthly allowance at about $3,120 per month. Treat this as a city-level budgeting estimate, not the school's official cost of attendance.
Environment: Urban
With a combination of walkable pockets and strong biking infrastructure, the area near U-of-C offers decent flexibility. Students can often walk to essentials and comfortably bike to destinations a bit farther afield.
Interview Feedback
Overall, applicants ranked the school in the top 10% of interviews, indicating it is highly regarded. They found the interview very impressive with a low stress level and felt they did well.
Secondary Essays for U-of-C
1. Other
Please share with us the personal and professional experiences that have best prepared you to work in our diverse clinical environment.
2. Career Goals and Future Aspirations
Please describe your research interests and share how our research opportunities will help you advance your career goals.
3. Personal Experiences and Challenges
Share with us a difficult or challenging situation you have encountered and how you dealt with it. In your response, identify both the coping skills you called upon and the support person(s) from...
4. Career Goals and Future Aspirations
OPTIONAL: Please feel free to use this space to convey any additional information you might wish the Committee to know (e.g., if you are not currently completing a degree, please share your planned...
5. Community, Diversity, and Equity
Essay Question 1 (Suggested Word Limit: 450) Students at the Pritzker School of Medicine complete the majority of their clinical training at UChicago Medicine (UCM). UCM is one of the top ten most...
About the School
As a medical school located on the campus of a world class university, our medical students have the opportunity to take advantage of the resources of one of our country's greatest centers of learning. The accessibility of our faculty is a very important strength of our program. You will be taught by full-time faculty who are not only outstanding teachers but leading scientists and world famous clinicians. And the most critical ingredient of our success is the quality of the students themselves. Here at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, you will find a student body whose boundless enthusiasm for learning, service, investigation and science is matched only by its enthusiasm for teamwork, friendship, and making the most of the great city of Chicago. When you graduate, you will be prepared to follow generations of Pritzker-trained physicians to the best residency training programs in the country and ultimately into the career of your choice.
Curriculum
The curriculum at the University of Chicago provides a solid foundation in the basic sciences, building on a rich tradition at our institution in developing new knowledge. The relationship of the basic to the clinical sciences is demonstrated to students through innovative courses (such as Clinical Pathophysiology & Therapeutics). Finally, the last component of the curriculum is the clinical experience that students receive. Students begin seeing patients in their first quarter, participate in clinical skills training with standardized patients in the Clinical Performance Center, and are deeply engaged in patient care in the third and fourth year.
Facilities
The University of Chicago Medicine campus includes the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Chicago Lying In Hospital, Wyler's Children Hospital, and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. With inpatient beds, an active outpatient service, and fully staffed state-of the-art facilities, our facilities provide an excellent resource as the basis for our students' clinical training.
The medical campus is the major provider of health care for the immediate neighborhood. It also meets community needs through shared service agreements, referral relationships with physicians and hospitals, and continuing medical education classes for five community hospitals. At the tertiary care level, the medical campus draws referrals from the entire region, including northern Indiana. Patients with particularly complex or obscure medical problems often travel long distances to the University of Chicago for treatment.
The medical campus includes many research institutes, among them the National Cancer Research Center; the Diabetes Research and Training Center; the Clinical Research Center; and the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.
The medical campus is the major provider of health care for the immediate neighborhood. It also meets community needs through shared service agreements, referral relationships with physicians and hospitals, and continuing medical education classes for five community hospitals. At the tertiary care level, the medical campus draws referrals from the entire region, including northern Indiana. Patients with particularly complex or obscure medical problems often travel long distances to the University of Chicago for treatment.
The medical campus includes many research institutes, among them the National Cancer Research Center; the Diabetes Research and Training Center; the Clinical Research Center; and the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.
Last Updated: Aug 21, 2026