Facts and Figures

Deeply rooted in its educational goal of providing quality medical, research and nursing education to its students, UMass Chan Medical School, together with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health, is a vibrant academic medical center characterized by achievements and progress in a number of areas. 

How we rank

UMass Chan Medical School is consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of U.S. medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine for excellence in primary care education by weekly news magazine U.S. News & World Report in its annual review “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”

Beyond its core mission of distinction in medical education, the past decade has seen UMass Chan Medical School explode onto the national scene as a major center for research. The institution also ranks near the top among public medical schools in the northeast in funding awarded by the National Institutes of Health, with $204 million in NIH funding in FY 2023. Federal and private research grants and contracts at UMass Chan rose from about $2 million in 1977 to more than $322 million in FY 2023, making it one of the fastest growing research institutions in the United States. 

UMass Chan, home to more than 6,000 employees, was named to The Boston Globe’s 2023 list of Top Places to Work in Massachusetts, based on results of an employee survey.

2023 facts and figures

FY’23 funding and revenue

State appropriation: $69 million

State contracts: $55 million

Public service: $377 million

Research: $282 million

Sales and services: $133 million

Other revenue: $165 million

Total: $1.081 billion

Education

Faculty (as of Nov. 2023): 3,665

Fall 2023 enrollment

T.H. Chan School of Medicine

• 690 MD students
• 32 MD/PhD students
• 4,982 alumni

Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

• 331 PhD students
  • 13 Population Health Sciences students
• 42 MD/PhD students
• 11 Master of Science in Clinical Investigation students
• 1,196 alumni

Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing

• 218 DNP students
• 23 PhD students
• 10 Post-Graduate Certificate students
• 5 Master of Science in nursing and interprofessional leadership students
• 1,488 alumni

Affiliated hospitals and medical centers