CU-SOM vs UNE-COM vs MU-COM

[marisaadobe]

Would appreciate any input to help decide between these schools

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[SOtheProdigy]

Hey! I think it would be helpful if you put a pros and cons list for each school so we can give your input 🙂

 

[AnUnsullied]

Just stumbled across this thread. While I agree with SOtheProdigy that we would need your own personal pros and cons list, here was my notes on these schools:

CUSOM:

• Tuition: ~$59,080
• Rural school, but big emphasis on boards. My main takeaway from my notes is that Campbell has great board scores, match rates, and residency spots as well. The biggest downside seems to be the rural campus, but it’s only 2 years.

UNECOM:

• Tuition: ~$60,040
• Not really city-life, but near a city. Finding your own rotation site is a bit intimidating along with the high cost. From what I heard, it's a really small community and the medical students had all their classes in one building, which was surprising to me. Maybe that has changed though.

MUCOM:

• Tuition: ~$57,000
• My main notes when researching this school is this thread here from someone who is a student there. Small school, but amazing teachers. Great clinical sites in urban and rural areas. No competitiveness. While it is a Catholic school, they do not shove Catholicism down your throat.

My own personal ranking would be:

1. CUSOM
2. MUCOM
3. UNECOM

My reasoning:

• Personally, for me, I'm 26 currently and looking to switch careers from technology to medicine. So, tuition is always at the front of my mind when making a decision. In addition, if I'm spending this much money on a school, I want it to be able to help me get a good score so I can match into a residency of my chose, and I like that Campbell is one of the few DO schools that post COMLEX scores - their students definitely do well.

 

[darkeon]

w/o knowing more, my instinct says une-com as it's been in the game long. mu-com 2nd for me. then cusom

 

[FlyingBanana]

CUSOM is 45 min from Raleigh, Raleight is fun and has a lot of things, CUSOM is a great school, The campus is really nice, I toured recently. I don't know much about the 2 others. Just information for you to keep in mind. The fact that they post their scores is a great indicator of their academic prowess, also they have non-mandatory lecture now. Finding your own rotations would be a pain, you pay tuition for them to do that for you.