On September 19, 1782, Harvard Medical School was founded after President Joseph Willard presented a report with plans for a medical school to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. After the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, it is the third-oldest medical school in the United States.

Harvard Medical School has gone through many curricular revisions for its medicine degree program. In recent decades, Harvard Medical School has maintained a three-phase curriculum which is a classroom-based pre-clerkship phase, a principal clinical experience (PCE), and a post-PCE phase.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts and is consistently ranked first for research among medical schools by U.S. News & World Report. HMS does not operate in conjunction with a single hospital but is directly affiliated with many different teaching hospitals in the Boston area.

The University has received various prestigious National and International awards. University faculties from different research area received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, and Peace, where 16 recipients received 10 prizes.

The acceptance rate of the HMS is considered to be one of the lowest and extremely selective among all the universities around the globe. The HMS also provides lucrative financial aid packages to many of its students through its large endowment fund. About 70% of students receive an average annual scholarship of $50,245.

Harvard Medical School offers one of the best educational experiences in the world to students of medicine and hence it’s no wonder that the school is at the 1^st position on the list for many of the world’s brilliant medical students.