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Why isn't Hopkins included here? UCLA Medical Center is further from some points in LA than Hopkins is from most of DC, and Stanford is actually a bit further from downtown SF than Hopkins is to downtown DC.

DC's problem isn't a lack of a good med school. It's a lack of a solid Higher Education system all around. DC has no good public university, Virginia's public university system is great (but far away, and declining rapidly), leaving UMD as really the only well-known public university in the area..and it's still pretty far outside of the city. GWU and GU seem content to remain small playgrounds for the rich at the undergraduate level, while having decent-but-limited programs at the graduate level.

None of our schools are on par with the Ivies or great research universities. Really, we don't have anything that even comes close. It's almost embarrassing that Lawyer City USA doesn't have a Top-10 Law School.

Live in DC and want to go to grad school? Currently, your best options are to pay full price, or move out of the district. I seriously think you'd be hard-pressed to find a locale in the US that has worse access to affordable adult education.

(Aside: These rankings are BS anyway)

by andrew on Jul 23, 2012 3:26 pm • link • report