Medical School attracts impressive application numbers for first cohort

The University of Exeter Medical School has received nearly 15 applications for every place on its first medical degree programme which starts in 2013.
 
The applications deadline closed on 15 October by which time Exeter had received 1,770 applications for the 120 places on its course.

The number of applicants to the University of Exeter Medical School is more than the total for the last round of applications for the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD). PCMD was demerged this year and the University of Exeter Medical School is an outcome of that demerger.
 
Professor Steve Thornton, Dean of the University of Exeter Medical School, said: ‘The University of Exeter Medical School has built on our success in medical education and research as PCMD and this, combined with the University of Exeter’s reputation for excellence, has made the medical school extremely attractive to new students. We will also start to allow around 10% of students entering our Clinical Science degree in 2013 to transfer to medicine at the end of year 1, so there are additional opportunities for those students who do not immediately get placed.’
 
The University of Exeter Medical School will train students throughout Devon and Cornwall in partnership with the NHS . It combines Exeter’s reputation for high quality medical education and training, and student experience, with world class research in diabetes, cardiovascular risk and ageing, environment and human health, health services research and neuroscience.

It offers a number of courses, including the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree and the Bachelor of Clinical Science degree, together with postgraduate courses in Environment and Human Health and MPhils/PhDs in Medical Studies. The next Medical School open day is on 27 April 2013 at the St Luke’s Campus, Exeter.
 
The University of Exeter is ranked among the UK’s top 10 universities and was recently voted the Sunday Times University of the Year. It is in the top 200 in the world for Medicine (QS world rankings 2012). It is a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive universities.