<p>Hello all, I'm trying to decide on a grad school program and I've always been very interested in science and health but from what I've seen most medical grad schools are extremely expensive (70-90k a year!). Maybe it's just the ones I've come across, that's why I'm wondering if someone can give me a different perspective. Is there a school you would recommend for affordability? Thanks!</p>
<p>That price is actually pretty good. Being expensive is the norm for med school.</p>
<p>Oh gosh :-S I thought I had come across unusually expensive ones LOL. I wonder why this is. I know in some countries it’s no more expensive than other programs. I heard someone say it’s because they don’t want that many physicians but I’m not sure whether this has any truth to it. Tuition certainly seems over-inflated 
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<p>Your state school is ususally your most affordable option.</p>
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Are you an int’l student? Medical school in the US is not financially feasible for most int’l students. </p>
<p>It’s expensive because of multiple factors: liability, procedures, equipment, etc. When you are training physicians, you are dealing with human lives. People in the US want to find fault and do find fault by suing others. Lots of money to be made by insurance companies and attorneys.</p>
<p>I actually hunted around for the cost of educating a medical student, and I couldn’t find any hard numbers. But I did find a economic analysis based upon public medical school budget requests and the 2003 estimate was around $115,000 /year per student. Higher during clinical years. So even at the expensive private med schools, tuition doesn’t cover the entire cost of educating a doctor. </p>
<p>That $115,000 includes only direct instructional costs. It doesn’t include costs of maintaining the clinical training sites or research facilities. </p>