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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.

I am a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP), and decline to express any opinion about higher education on the other side of the Potomac River (beyond stating that I root for the Terps when they play UVa and Virginia Tech).

But - I must take strong exception to your assertion that UMCP is "pretty far outside the city."

I don't think less than 9 miles (according to Google Maps) from the U.S. Capitol dome is far. And it is the University of Maryland, not the University of the District of Columbia.

Now it is unfortunate that the Metrorail Green Line stop for the campus is so far to the east of the center of the College Park campus (you can thank 1970's NIMBYs in Prince George's County, including the City of Hyattsville, for objecting to a Green Line routing that would have brought it almost straight north from Prince George's Plaza and through the center of campus for that), but it is possible to get to and from College Park by Metro.

Returning to the original subject of the thread, don't forget that the University of Maryland has a fine medical school as well - but it is at the University system's Baltimore City campus, a short walk from Camden Yards.

by C. P. Zilliacus on Jul 23, 2012 4:59 pm • link • report