University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
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School Detail
APPLICATION FEE
$30
Tuition In State
$33,726
Tuition Out of State
$57,036
Average GPA
3.95
AVERAGE MCAT
520
School Overview
- Degrees
- MD
- Ownership
- Public Non-Profit
- Program Length
- 4 years
- Total Enrollment
- 156
- Founding Year
- 1965
- Accreditation Year
- 1971
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SDN Insights
Cost of Attendance: $311,768
Estimate repayment
Estimated loan burden for USF-COM 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
Tampa, FL 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 $3,030 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 USF-COM 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 26% of interviews, indicating it is moderately regarded. They found the interview generally impressive with a low stress level and felt they did well.
Secondary Essays for USF-COM
1. Other
Do you believe the competitiveness of your application has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic?
2. Career Goals and Future Aspirations
What do you see as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? (Select one)
3. Personal Attributes and Characteristics
Describe the knowledge, skills, and attributes you have developed in preparation for your chosen career path.
4. Career Goals and Future Aspirations
How would the USF Morsani College of Medicine’s Scholarly Concentrations Program help your personal career goals?
5. Personal Attributes and Characteristics
How do you feel your experiences, interests, and passions will add to the strength and diversity of the USF class and ultimately to the field of medicine?
About the School
The College of Medicine, one of the four colleges of the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center, admitted the first class of medical students in 1971. The program and curriculum expanded from the M.D. degree to include a MD/Ph.D. program in medical sciences, an MD/MPH degree, residency programs in various specialties and sub-specialties, and numerous special fellowship programs of both clinical and scientific specialized training. The College of Medicine is an academic community of scientific and educational excellence with leadership in medicine, medically related research, and highly specialized medical care services. The faculty is dedicated to programs of education, research, and patient care, while providing its students with educational experiences of the highest quality.
Curriculum
The curricular program of the College of Medicine is one in which there is integration of basic science and clinical medicine across all four years: more basic science is emphasized earlier in the program and more clinical medicine is emphasized later in the program. Through careful planning, an effort will be made to use the fundamental knowledge of the basic sciences in a meaningful relation to career goals in medicine. Although during the first and second years the emphasis will be on the sciences basic to medicine, clinical medicine is well integrated into the curriculum. Clinical medicine will be the focus during the third year. The opportunity to advance in both fields in a correlated fashion will be offered in the elective period of the fourth year. The introduction of physical diagnosis and clinical medicine in the first and second years and the opportunity to select basic science electives during the elective year, are of special significance for modern medicine since there is widespread recognition that delay between scientific discovery and its clinical application is too long and must be shortened. It is expected that graduates of the present program will have less difficulty in retaining a true feeling for a close relationship between basic medical science and its clinical application.
Facilities
The Health Sciences Center and the college have strong ties with other university programs and certain programs have achieved national and international recognition. Relationships with other Health Sciences Center colleges, teaching hospitals, the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, and other disciplines within the university provide a very strong academic and research base. The college is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education for the maximum period.
Last Updated: Oct 23, 2025