PreMed at UMD or NHS at Georgetown

Which program is better for the long run?
I most likely would get a lot of money from UMD(also bc I’m in-state) but no financial aid at all from Georgetown($70k a year).

Is Georgetown worth the money?

I was accepted into the Honors College at UMD and would get a BS in Health Sciences at Georgetown

I have a feeling you’ll get more responses in either the UMD or Georgetown sections

As a parent who has paid full tuition for kids K-12 and will continue to pay, I would suggest go to the school that can provide you the best education and fit.

This is of course posted in the wrong place.

However, you need to avoid debt and save as much of your college funds as possible if you are premed. UMD is a great choice, and IMHO the right choice if you are in-state.

Apparently, affordability is not an issue to OP’s family otherwise she would have not raised this question. Her question is about “Which program is better for the long run”. I knew OP is also interested in Brown from other threads and I knew Brown is one of the best premed school ( @TheOldTimer is going to say the best :slight_smile: ), so choose the school that can provide you the best education and fit, balanced, don’t let the short-term money impact your decision for long-run interest and life.

Which place has the best options if you decide against pre-med at some point!

Have you and your family talked about where the money will come from for college and med school? For example, if you go with the cheap undergrad program, will they pay for med school!

The answers depend on several factors that aren’t addressed in the original post.

1, How much is “a lot of money” from Maryland?
2. Have you run Georgetown’s online net price calculator? How much more would it cost?
3. How much is your family able and willing to spend?
4. Are you fairly confident you want to become a doctor? (or a nurse?)

NHS is primarily a nursing school, right?
A degree in one of the NHS programs wouldn’t rule out med school (as long as you take all the required pre-med courses). However, a liberal arts program (again, with all the pre-med courses) is the more usual/customary path to medical school. The latter also would give you more flexibility to opt out of pre-health completely … but perhaps less flexibility to choose between nursing or med school.

UMD hasn’t released merit scholarships yet, so I don’t know.

NHS is actually Nursing and Health Studies so I’m not interested in nursing at all. I just like Georgetown and NHS offers a more health focused premed curriculum

“However, a liberal arts program (again, with all the pre-med courses) is the more usual/customary path to medical school”

Not true