8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

The Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, national, freestanding institution that was founded in 1893 as the Wisconsin college of Physicians and Surgeons. It became the Marquette University in 1913 due to a merger with Milwaukee Medical College. In 1967, Marquette University terminated its sponsorship, and a few years later, the University was given its current name.

Academic programs and admission is available in the Medical College of Wisconsin divisions including the medical school, Graduate School, Graduate Medical Education, CME, Medical Scientist Training Program, Postdoctoral Education, Interdisciplinary Program in Public and Community Health, and Pediatric Medical Education. The college offers degrees in Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science, Master of Public Health, Master of Arts, and certification in Clinical Bioethics.

At the Medical College of Wisconsin, there are more than 1,200 students enrolled, comprised of over 650 medical students and over 400 graduate students. The college faculty supervises about 650 students in residency training and 175 students in fellowship training at medical facilities affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin. There are about 200 scientists in postdoctoral research fellowship training.

Quick Facts

Medical College of Wisconsin has almost 5,000 faculty and staff, more than 4,700 work at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus, and over 200 work at 18 other health care facilities in Wisconsin.

The Medical College of Wisconsin is the 11th largest private employer in the Milwaukee metro area.

Each year, more than 15,000 health professionals register for continuing medical education.

The college is the largest research institution in Milwaukee and the 2nd largest in Wisconsin.

In 2006-2007, the Medical College of Wisconsin faculty received about $143 million for research, teaching, training, and other purposes, with about $130 million granted for research. This total also includes research and training awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

In the federal government's fiscal year 2007, the college received $92.3 million in funding from the NIH. The NIH ranked the college 46th in the nation for NIH research funding, which put the school among the nation's top 40%.

Yearly, Medical College of Wisconsin's faculty is involved in approximately 3,000 research studies, having more than 1,300 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed medical journals, and conducting studies in 27 academic departments at research centers including the National Biomedical Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Center, National Center for Proteomics Research and Development, National Center for Aids Intervention Research, National Injury Research Center, Wisconsin CIREN (Crash Injury Research and engineering Network) Center, National Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological Terrorism, National Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology, National Children's Study Center, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, and a dozen other college centers.

In 2007, Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children's Hospital and Health System opened a new research facility for the College's Translational and Biomedical Research Center and the Children's Research Institute.

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