UAMS College of Medicine – Contributing to the Future

The College of Medicine’s admission policies are regulated by several Arkansas laws (see Information for Applicants). The college is required to admit 150 students each year. Some out-of-state applications are considered but most students are selected from the roughly 400 applications received per year. Seventy percent of the class must be made up of students equally divided from the four congressional districts of Arkansas. The make-up of the Admissions Committee is also regulated by law. The committee is made up of fifteen members appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Six of the members are faculty from the college. Two members are appointed from each of the four congressional districts, and one member is appointed from the State-at-large. In addition to medical students, the college is responsible for the training of approximately 550 interns, residents, and fellows in postdoctoral work each year.