Want to know of med schools NOT in big cities.

[brhill]

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Hey guys I'm just wondering how to get a list (if it's long enough to be called that) of schools that aren't in big cities. I know there probably won't be too many, for obvious reasons, but it seems like there might be a few. Or are there any resources that give details on the locations of schools and/or the surrounding areas? Thanks.

 

[BlackPuma]

Texas A&M is one

 

[pre-hawkdoc]

Iowa City (U of Iowa) has about 60,000 residents--not exactly what I'd call a big city. Of course, in the summer that number drops dramatically.

 

[Wahoo]

Dartmouth comes to mind.

 

[lilycat]

Stanford, Duke, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UTMB (Galveston, TX)

 

[BlackPuma]

huh really stanford isnt in a big city?

guess i just lost interest

I ONLY LIKE BIG CITIES 🙂

 

[Rhiana]

Stanford IS in a big city. It may not seem like it when you only look at Palo Alto's numbers. But you have to realize that PA is between San JOse and San Francisco, two huge cities. In fact everything from San Jose north is just one big concrete jungle. Trust me, I lived in the Bay Area all my life. If your looking for a small town place, then Silicon Valley is not for you.

 

[SMW]

Vermont

 

[FSUMED]

Most of your southern schools are in mid-sized cities, with the exception of Atlanta and Memphis. And I know that a lot of the midwestern schools are in smaller places as well. So try checking some of those. The problem with this however, is that they are more than likely in small states, which means they are probably very preferential to in-staters, if not totally excluding out of staters. That seems to be a theme in the south, for it nest to impossible to gain admission to a public school from out of state, in MS, AL, LA, FL, GA, and TN to name a few.

 

[Future GI Guy]

Mizzou is in Columbia, which has about 80,000 people.

East Tennessee State University is in Johnson City, I think, and that's really small.

Mayo, of course, is in Rochestor, MN, which isn't very big.

 

[CRS]

Texas Tech is in Lubbock, which might have 200-300,000 people, but it just doesn't seem like a big city...especially when you can see cotton from the front doors of the med school.

 

[pcl]

michigan state - east lansing isn't huge, and it's pretty spread out, so it doesn't feel big either. Lots of Green.

highly favors mi residents though.

 

[Djanaba]

U of MN in Duluth is small, as is the city its in, but unless you're a MN resident or of Native American descent, it will be tough to get in. (3rd and 4th year in Minneapolis, but you can do your 3rd in a more rural location if you wish. Good deal for folks trying to stay away from urbanity.)

 

[SwimGirl]

Wright State is in one of the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio and Dayton itself isn't that big...

 

[lilycat]

Originally posted by Rhiana:
•Stanford IS in a big city. It may not seem like it when you only look at Palo Alto's numbers. But you have to realize that PA is between San JOse and San Francisco, two huge cities. In fact everything from San Jose north is just one big concrete jungle. Trust me, I lived in the Bay Area all my life. If your looking for a small town place, then Silicon Valley is not for you.•

Sorry, but I have to completely disagree. I went to Stanford undergrad, and I worked there for 2 years, so I feel somewhat knowledgeable about this as well. Stanford and Palo Alto are about as suburban as they come. Proximity to a big city (ie, San Francisco), does not make a place a city by default.

In general, places like San Francisco, LA, San Diego, New York, Houston, New Orleans, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, etc. are considered "big" cities.

Palo Alto and the associated Silicon Valley areas are just not big cities by any stretch of the imagination. San Jose is not a big city either. However, they do qualify as one big, sprawling suburbia. They have some aspects of city life like bad traffic on the freeway, but there are no real downtown areas, very few restaurants and coffeehouses that stay open past 10 pm (I can think of only one right now), etc.

However, Stanford is about 45 min. away from San Francisco and thus is located in very close proximity to aspects of city life, hilly hiking areas, beaches.

Also, the OP was not asking for schools that were only in small towns, but only those that were not in big cities. There are obvious differences in populations and "activity" between say Palo Alto, Davis, and Durham, but none of those places are considered big cities.

 

[brhill]

Well, somehow I think that Standford will be pretty much a non-issue anyway. 😉
But you're right lilycat, I didn't mean totally rural but just something not ultra-urban. Thanks guys for the help....keep it comin'.

 

[Rhiana]

FYI: San Jose is actually a bigger city than San Francisco. I used to work nights in this area and can guarantee you that there are hundreds of places that are open till 2 or all night. It might have been awhile since you were there but the area is booming.

 

[lilycat]

Originally posted by Rhiana:
•FYI: San Jose is actually a bigger city than San Francisco. I used to work nights in this area and can guarantee you that there are hundreds of places that are open till 2 or all night. It might have been awhile since you were there but the area is booming.•

Sigh.

I was actually in Palo Alto between 9/95-5/01, so I've only been gone for a few months. I never really went out to San Jose because I never heard about anything going on there, besides concerts at the Compaq Center. I stayed close around the Stanford area, where there was one coffee place open till 11pm (besides the one on campus), and some pretty weak bars open till 1am or 2am. I'm not sure about "hundreds of places" being open till the wee hours of the morning, except for Denny's and Lyon's. There's a reason why people would say, "I'm going up to the city tonight," or "I live in the city and commute." The "city" = San Francisco.

As for the "booming" area, it's not quite so booming with the hit the tech sector has been taking, and the plethora of pink-slip parties that have been thrown. The HP-Compaq deal will probably help some. The economy is okay, but it probably hit a hyper-inflated peak about a year or two ago, and now things are coming back to earth a little more, esp. in terms of rents and house prices (property on the market a whole month rather than a whole day).

My main point was that Stanford is not in an urban setting or "concrete jungle." Ergo, for people who prefer not to be in a city environment, Stanford would be a wise school to consider.

 

[thedoboy]

I've lived throughout the Bay Area all my life and I would definittely consider Palo Alto as a charming and quaint little city. And although I would say the Bay Area as a whole is combination of urban and rural(that's why I love it), it is not a "concrete jungle." Like others posters have stated there are many creeks, hiking and rec areas on the lush penisula. As for San Jose, my current residence, it is a very large city but it is not centralized like SF. It also does not have SF's eclectic atmosphere. honestly, for a city of it's size, it should more things to do.

All and all the Stanford area is a nice place to live. If you want the convience and attractions of a big city you can go north or south, but still go home to the "sanity" of a small town.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I think our little burg, Chocolate Town USA, qualifies! 😀

 

[SaucyAZN]

I was born and raised in San Jose. To me, San Jose is, unofficially, the world's largest suburb (although if someone can think of a "city" like San Jose that's larger, let us know). It has a dinky downtown, and it has a really suburban feel to it. Doesn't feel crowded like a Frisco.

What else? Can you say ridiculously pricey? Not Frisco pricey, but still way up there. The traffic is nasty...not Soh Cal nasty, but it can definitely get on your nerves.

But I still love San Jose...I don't live there anymore, but it will always be home.

 

[BlackPuma]

are Galveston and San Antonio in Big Cities?

 

[AJM]

Okay, having been at Stanford for over 8 years now, I think I'll get in on this conversation too. 😀 I agree for the most part with lilycat. Stanford/Palo Alto is just about as suburban as you can get. San Jose, although it is a "big city" meaning that the greater San Jose area has a much larger population than the San Francisco area, is still one huge sprawl. San Jose is not a good city to go out and do things at, but it is a great place to learn medicine. The greater San Jose area is one of the main population bases for Stanford and Packard hospitals. In addition, Stanford med students do approximately a third to a half (and sometimes more) of their clinical rotations in clinics and hospitals in San Jose, including the county hospital which serves a huge indigent population.

However, we are still close enough to SF to be able to go there for the evening, and it is still a suburban area with lots of trees and open space. I consider that to be the best of both worlds. 🙂 Oh yeah -- and the traffic and housing prices are really improving now that all of the Silicon Valley companies are going out of business! 😉

Okay -- enough of selling my school... 🙂 As far as other places that are not in big cities -- SUNY Syracuse, SUNY Buffalo, and SUNY Stony Brook I believe would qualify. Albany is also in a pretty small town. (or maybe my perspective is all messed up since I've been living in this "urban sprawl"). 🙂

 

[figure five]

yes

I attended stanford for undergrad and grad school, and i must say that palo alto is definitely a sleep-inducing suburban wasteland. sure, it's semi-close to SF and cool nature stuff nearby (half moon bay, hiking in santa cruz and big basin, etc), but otherwise it's really boring. The silicon valley has the nice cars, J. Crew sweaters, and snooty attitudes that you'll find in parts of large cities, without any of the fun. As soon as I finished my masters I escaped to san francisco! haha i'm not bitter or anything