The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president. Its enabling legislation is the Post-secondary Learning Act. The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton, the Augustana Campus in Camrose, and a staff centre in downtown Calgary.
The University of Alberta is a publicly funded research university – with $1 billion in research expenditures in 2009/2010 – and is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities (with McGill University, McMaster University, Université de Montréal, University of British Columbia and University of Toronto) which represents 15 leading research-intensive universities.
As one of Canada’s top medical schools, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta has been ranked as one of Canada’s best medical programs for 19 consecutive years by Maclean’s magazine (2004-2012) and has been ranked among the top 10 medical schools globally for clinical training by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE).
University Of Alberta Medical School Admission Statistics
The University of Alberta has a 100% admission rate. Approximately 1,000 students apply each year and 550 are interviewed. Of those who are interviewed, around 250 are offered admission to the first year class of 60 students. The average GPA of accepted students is approximately 3.8/4.0 and the average MCAT score is 507 (96th percentile).
The University of Alberta Medical School does not require applicants to take a specific set of prerequisite courses but does require that all applicants complete at least two years of university level science prior to application.
The University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in Canada, and has been consistently ranked among the top 200 medical schools in the world.
In 2015, 1,333 students applied to UAlberta’s MD program (including both international and Canadian applicants). Of those, 617 were Canadian citizens or landed immigrants and 716 were international students.
The average GPA for admitted students was 3.8/4.0, while the average MCAT score was 35/36. The average age range was 22-30 years old for both male and female applicants.
The following table shows the breakdown of applicants by citizenship status:
Citizenship Number Percentage (%)
Canadian 1,180 70%
