How would Virginia Tech Carilion fare in the USNWR rankings?

[BurritoKiller]

Since it's a new school, it's not participating in the USNWR research rankings. I'm wondering approximately where it would be, as it touts itself as a research-intensive school but only received $7 million in NIH funding last year. To be fair, it's the smallest school in the nation (42 per class) so its faculty size is correspondingly small, thus making for a smaller pool of research dollars. I'm trying to compare its research potential to a couple of mid range schools I've interviewed at that have between $80-120 million in NIH funding. Virginia Tech in general is a solid research institution, so does its research power come from affiliations with the undergrad school?

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[Goro]

No one cares except premeds and med school deans.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Are the "unranked" schools in the US News report just not participating in the rankings? I thought that just means they are ranked lower than #100 and USN doesn't want to be rude about it.

 

[efle]

Are the "unranked" schools in the US News report just not participating in the rankings? I thought that just means they are ranked lower than #100 and USN doesn't want to be rude about it.

Unranked = refused or could not provide the info needed to be ranked

Rank Not Published (RNP) = they gave us the info but were ranked bottom quartile, so we hid exact score

 

[Goro]

BTE, the median LizzyM score for Va tech is 70, about the same as SLU, and > VCU or EVMS. UVA is a 75.

 

[GrumpyGus]

Are the "unranked" schools in the US News report just not participating in the rankings? I thought that just means they are ranked lower than #100 and USN doesn't want to be rude about it.

Yup. Tulane for example doesn't believe in rankings and simply refuses to participate even though they'd be very favorably ranked. I mean just look at their match lists-- their graduates do extremely well.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Yup. Tulane for example doesn't believe in rankings and simply refuses to participate even though they'd be very favorably ranked. I mean just look at their match lists-- their graduates do extremely well.

Interesting. One of my favorite interviews was at Loyola, which is also "unranked". I always thought that meant it was ranked poorly and couldn't figure out why because it seems like a great school. Good to know!

 

[libertyyne]

BTE, the median LizzyM score for Va tech is 70, about the same as SLU, and > VCU or EVMS. UVA is a 75.

Virginia is not a pleasant state to be from when applying to medical school.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Virginia is not a pleasant state to be from when applying to medical school.

Naw it's fine

 

[piii]

Yup. Tulane for example doesn't believe in rankings and simply refuses to participate even though they'd be very favorably ranked. I mean just look at their match lists-- their graduates do extremely well.

Ranking has nothing to do with match list, that wouldnt factor anything into it's rank

 

[mistafab]

Ranking is 100% bologna.

VTC is a great school in doing what it does.

 

[Notetoself1609]

VTC 3rd year here, pretty sure we don't participate in the rankings. Also we have had 100% match for the 5 graduating classes with last year matching 100% to their top choices. We also have a lot of research money and opportunities within the hospital in terms of clinical research and quality improvement.

**Didn't realize how old this post was haha sorry for the late response

 

[DokterMom]

VTC 3rd year here, pretty sure we don't participate in the rankings. Also we have had 100% match for the 5 graduating classes with last year matching 100% to their top choices. We also have a lot of research money and opportunities within the hospital in terms of clinical research and quality improvement.

**Didn't realize how old this post was haha sorry for the late response

** Yeah, but 100% matching to their top choices is brag-worthy Congratulations!

 

[altblue]

Old post, but I feel like being ranked dead last might actually be beneficial for the school, lol. More apps...