TERRE HAUTE — Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students have a higher acceptance rate to medical school than students at other U.S. colleges and universities, according to a recent report from the Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering.
Between 2002 and 2009, Rose-Hulman students with grade-point averages at or above 3.4 and an MCAT score above 24 had a medical school acceptance rate of 89 percent. Rose-Hulman’s overall acceptance rate during that period was 73 percent — much higher than the national average of 44 percent between 2002 and 2008.
Lee Waite, head of Rose-Hulman’s Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, released the report recently to the campus community.
Other newsworthy items in the report were:
• Rose-Hulman’s applied biology major is the only biology program in Indiana to require a year-long, 12-credit undergraduate research experience. Also, Rose-Hulman has the only biology bachelor of science or bachelor of arts degree program in Indiana that requires mathematics through differential equations to earn a biology degree.
• Applied biology and biomedical engineering majors make up 109 of Rose-Hulman’s 350 female students. Also, more than half of the department’s students are female (109 of 214) and half of the ABBE faculty members are female (six of 12).
n More than 30 percent of Rose-Hulman’s applied biology students go on to attend graduate school. Alumni are currently pursuing advanced biology degrees at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Purdue, Johns Hopkins, Oregon State, Arizona State and other institutions. These students are attending graduate school with full tuition and living expenses stipends paid by their programs.
• More than 20 percent of Rose-Hulman’s applied biology students go on to study medicine, optometry, dentistry or law. Alumni are pursuing advanced study at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Ohio State University School of Medicine, Arizona School of Dentistry and other colleges. One student pursuing medicine received the highest award for IU graduate students — the $20,000 John H. Edwards Fellowship — for the 2009-10 academic year.
More information about Rose-Hulman’s applied biology and biomedical engineering programs can be found at www.rose-hulman.edu/abbe.
