Least expensive cities with a medical school

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I live just outside Portland which is fairly inexpensive, so OHSU is a great choice for me. Just wondering about other metro areas that are inexpensive to live and have a medical school.
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i'll go ahead and throw it out there....omaha, ne.
 
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Madison, WI
Des Moines, IA
Iowa City, IA
 
NEWARK!!!!! soon to be superceded by the new NJ med school to open in Camden. There are frequently multiple murders per day in newark. great for keeping property value low
 
theWUbear said:
NEWARK!!!!! soon to be superceded by the new NJ med school to open in Camden. There are frequently multiple murders per day in newark. great for keeping property value low
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are you serious bro? property tax in jersey is high no matter where. avg aptment near NJMS is decently expensive compared to the Midwest/South
 
Gotta be Wayne State in Detroit. You can own your house for 30k. Cheap for a reason obviously.
 
brooklynblunder said:
are you serious bro? property tax in jersey is high no matter where. avg aptment near NJMS is decently expensive compared to the Midwest/South
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i haven't done my research on this one so perhaps i'm wrong, but i would assume that both our answers are correct...mine referring to the more crime-ridden destitute parts of the city and yours (more relevant to this thread) referring to University Heights and more specifically the housing around the med school. You also bring up a good point regarding the difference between tri-state area property values on the whole vs the midwest and/or south.

Got 800 bucks? http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/672-S-18th-St-Newark-NJ-07103/38691061_zpid/
Unless I'm interpreting the website wrong, thats the cost of this apt 5 minutes from the med school. I'm an idiot if thats rent or something, however.
 
metallica81788 said:
New Orleans is pretty cheap for LSU and Tulane if you're OOS.

Too bad Tulane's tuition is ridiculous, kinda balances it out. :laugh:
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Never thought about NO. I love Jazz and I have family history there, but I've never visited. I'll check it out. Thanks
 
Pittsburgh, PA. The Pitt Shop sells clothes really cheap ($2.99 tshirts and $15 hoodies), there's lots of inexpensive and good places to eat/shop that you can walk to, city bussing is free for Pitt students. The cost of housing isn't too pricey either.
 
Would living in Scranton be cheap? There's that new med school there...
 
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Procyon said:
Would living in Scranton be cheap? There's that new med school there...
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Housing is very inexpensive if you are willing to rent a house and share it with classmates. Restaurants are cheap as well. Scranton is a very good deal.
 
Cleveland. You can get a 5 bedroom house with a water view for $800 a month.
 
Rochester was remarkably affordable when I lived there (I paid <$300/month in rent), and the school is top notch.

The weather, on the other hand...
 
nickmx50 said:
Never thought about NO. I love Jazz and I have family history there, but I've never visited. I'll check it out. Thanks
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yeah, new orleans is nice and is very cheap to live in, but as metallica said, you'd be OOS, so you can't apply to LSU (unless you tell them you want to do MD/PhD, in which case they'll interview you and accept you for MD first, and then you can just not show up to the MD/PhD interview. idk if this actually works, but it would be fun to find out). You'd have to do Tulane, and Tulane is outrageously expensive and definitely not worth the sticker in my opinion. But by all means go check it out.

I have also heard good things about the Indianapolis housing market as organdonor mentioned. Dallas and Houston are both extremely affordable cities and have great medical schools. Baylor is very nice because tuition is so low for a private school.

Minneapolis is ok, definitely not too expensive, and U of M is there and is a fantastic school.

Ann Arbor is more expensive than the typical town of its size, but is still rather affordable and Michigan is wonderful.

The other Rochester, Rochester, MN, is very inexpensive and Mayo is there.
 
spospo said:
i'll go ahead and throw it out there....omaha, ne.
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I agree, it's very affordable. Omaha is a very nice city as well. Fun fact: Omaha is the smallest city in the country with more than one medical school (Creighton and UNMC).
 
Buffalo

Not only is it a state school so tuition is much cheaper, but the housing there is like $450 for a studio, and much cheaper if you share a two person apartment. I had a friend who was paying like $350 for a really nice apartment.
 
greenville nc wins. and it also has the cheapest med school in the usa
 
Lansing/East Lansing is also a pretty low cost of living area.
 
Not really going to get cheaper than the Midwest on average.
 
ilovepizza said:
greenville nc wins. and it also has the cheapest med school in the usa
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No OOSers. I think this thread is mainly for cities with schools that take OOSers.

Dr McSexy said:
Shreveport, LA is cheap. No OOSs though.
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I was going to mention this before, but figured it was pointless b/c of the no OOSer thing. :laugh:
 
metallica81788 said:
I was going to mention this before, but figured it was pointless b/c of the no OOSer thing. :laugh:
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Yeah, I should have thought about that. 😀 Anyone who's applying to LSUS should already know the city's cheap to live in.
 
sleepy425 said:
yeah, new orleans is nice and is very cheap to live in, but as metallica said, you'd be OOS, so you can't apply to LSU (unless you tell them you want to do MD/PhD, in which case they'll interview you and accept you for MD first, and then you can just not show up to the MD/PhD interview. idk if this actually works, but it would be fun to find out). You'd have to do Tulane, and Tulane is outrageously expensive and definitely not worth the sticker in my opinion. But by all means go check it out.

I have also heard good things about the Indianapolis housing market as organdonor mentioned. Dallas and Houston are both extremely affordable cities and have great medical schools. Baylor is very nice because tuition is so low for a private school.

Minneapolis is ok, definitely not too expensive, and U of M is there and is a fantastic school.

Ann Arbor is more expensive than the typical town of its size, but is still rather affordable and Michigan is wonderful.

The other Rochester, Rochester, MN, is very inexpensive and Mayo is there.
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Rochester is definately on my list. Heard great things about Mayo, but wasn't aware of U of M. Will check that out too. Thanks
 
Most of the places I'd guess have already been mentioned, but I'll throw these out there:
-Detroit
-Anywhere in Ohio
-Probably most places in Texas
-Fargo
-Sioux Falls
-Buffalo
-Winston-Salem
-Little Rock
-Albuquerque
-Birmingham
 
most places in texas, but especially College Station and Lubbock
 
What are most of you considering "cheap" as far as rent goes?
I'm from California so I believe my cost of living ideas are genuinely warped relative to residents of other states.
 
schrizto said:
Pittsburgh, PA. The Pitt Shop sells clothes really cheap ($2.99 tshirts and $15 hoodies), there's lots of inexpensive and good places to eat/shop that you can walk to, city bussing is free for Pitt students. The cost of housing isn't too pricey either.
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Wow, I didn't know the deals were so good at Pitt! In undergrad at Penn (t-shirts $10 and $45 hoodies) 🙁. But Philly overall isn't expensive if you live away from downtown, just not very safe (probably why).
 
NOLA for sure 👍

I do some Craigslist apartment shopping as a procrastination activity. I found a 2 bed room in a good neighborhood for $900/mo 😱 I never knew prices like that even existed! Anything tri-state is over-priced, imo
 
Both Cleveland and Columbus seem pretty cheap to live in
 
I haven't read all the cities people have posted, but anywhere in midwestern or southern states is going to be pretty cheap. Options that come to mind:

Omaha
Kansas City
Little Rock
Saint Louis
Iowa City
Des Moines
Columbia, MO
Denver
Louisville
Lexington
Shreveport
 
The price of housing is inversely proportional to the demand of living there. The demand of living there is directly correlated to how nice it is there (in the general public's point of view).
 
Hmmm...not sure that last part is true. There are lots of nice places to live that aren't terribly expensive. There are also plenty of crappy places that are ruthlessly expensive. The "niceness" factor is something that's only useful for comparison within one particular city or possibly one region. It doesn't account for things like space availability or proximity to business centers.
 
Second Pitt,

Pitt Students and UPMC employees get free city transportation. Lots of choices to eat on campus means restaurants trying to outdo each other. Also, access to the city is really easy.
 
If you like research than The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine would be good for you.
 
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