BU MAMS drop out/do not finnish program rate.....

[djherse]

Question for current or graduated MAMS students, on the programs home page it says that since 1986 661 students have completed the program if each new entering class is approximately 180 students is there a high drop out rate? Seems like more students should have completed the program since its inception....

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[CoolSpot7Up]

Question for current or graduated MAMS students, on the programs home page it says that since 1986 661 students have completed the program if each new entering class is approximately 180 students is there a high drop out rate? Seems like more students should have completed the program since its inception....

Not necessarily. The program may have started out very small, and the class size could have grown more and more as the program became more reputable. It's possible the school realized how much money they can make from this program, so they started taking in more and more students, resulting in the 661 since '86.

 

[ama75]

Question for current or graduated MAMS students, on the programs home page it says that since 1986 661 students have completed the program if each new entering class is approximately 180 students is there a high drop out rate? Seems like more students should have completed the program since its inception....

If you read the "Letter from the Chairmen" on the MAMS page, you'll see that the statistics are not up to date. It says "Over the past 14 years this program has been one of the best in the country ... In fact, of the 661 graduates, 572 have been admitted to MD or MD/PhD programs." If the program was founded in 1986, then the letter would have been written in 2000 (1986 + 14 years --> 2000). I'd really like to know what the current stats are. My guess is that they're probably considerably lower due to the increased enrollment.

 

[djherse]

discusion continued in BU MAMS fall 2008 thread unless moderator feels this is deserving of its own thread...