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Just to help you in your decisions for secondaries, etc...
http://www.com.msu.edu/pub-rel/images/2005_usnews.pdf
http://www.com.msu.edu/pub-rel/images/2005_usnews.pdf
Free 2005 USNEWS medical school rankings
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That's useful info, but you'll do well to look into the US News methodology to determine how useful the rankings really are.
I find it much more useful to see individual data points.
Also, some are pretty useless. Research money, for example, is not a useful criterion, except in the grossest sense. An example:
The Mayo clinic is listed with $188.2 mil. Does this mean that it isn't as good a place for research as the other places with tons more money? What's important there is to see how large a place is and figure out $/sq. ft. The $/faculty listing is also flawed because schools have different blends of clinical and research faculty positions. Also, Mayo only lets in ~30 students/year. That could mean that it's easier to find a lab, should you choose to do so.
Use the data, but be wary.
I find it much more useful to see individual data points.
Also, some are pretty useless. Research money, for example, is not a useful criterion, except in the grossest sense. An example:
The Mayo clinic is listed with $188.2 mil. Does this mean that it isn't as good a place for research as the other places with tons more money? What's important there is to see how large a place is and figure out $/sq. ft. The $/faculty listing is also flawed because schools have different blends of clinical and research faculty positions. Also, Mayo only lets in ~30 students/year. That could mean that it's easier to find a lab, should you choose to do so.
Use the data, but be wary.
