STU, Lake Erie College of
Osteopathic Medicine create paths for STU students to attend
LECOM's schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy,
podiatry
MIAMI
GARDENS, Fla., June 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Thomas
University announced Tuesday the creation of Early
Acceptance Programs (EAP) for students to attend Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and its
schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and podiatry.
LECOM is one of America's most affordable medical schools, with
one of the nation's largest enrollments for doctor of osteopathic
medicine or D.O. degrees. The Doctor of Medicine or M.D. and the
D.O. degrees are commensurate, but the D.O. practitioners take a
whole-person approach to healing.
Under the terms of the new affiliation agreement between STU and
LECOM, the medical school will admit up to five qualified
St. Thomas University students enrolled
in the D.O. early admission program each academic year. LECOM also
will admit up to five qualified STU students into their pharmacy
EAP, up to five students to their dental EAP, and a maximum of two
students to the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine EAP.
Pending STU and LECOM admissions committee reviews,
students can join the LECOM early admission programs
between their acceptance to STU and their sophomore year of
college, with some students potentially eligible to start their
medical school career after just three years of undergraduate
study. All STU students in the program are guaranteed to
receive LECOM admissions interviews.
LECOM is known for its internal, family and emergency medicine
programs. Depending upon the EAP specialization, students can
choose between the university's Erie and Seton Hill, PA campuses, or locations
in Elmira, NY and Bradenton, Florida. A Jacksonville, Florida campus is slated to open
in 2026.
LECOM has a competitive admissions process that attracted 17,420
applications across its campuses in fall 2023 and accepted 706 or
4%.
With a fall 2023 enrollment of 4,334, LECOM is one of America's
largest medical schools, aided by early admissions program
affiliations with 184 colleges and universities nationwide (as of
May 28) and tuition that is often
approximately half that of other osteopathic medicine schools.
St. Thomas University also is
rapidly growing and swiftly developing a reputation as one of the
South's premier Catholic universities. The university's fall
2023 enrollment has rocketed to 6,455 students, up 50% from 4,302
students in fall 2018.
St. Thomas has set five straight enrollment records from 2018 to
2023 all since President David A.
Armstrong, J.D., took office in August 2018. St.
Thomas University is in the midst of a
$123 million expansion program that
features 400,000 square feet of new facilities, including a
residence hall, athletic fields, and a new business school among
other projects.
"St. Thomas University's new
affiliation with LECOM dovetails with STU's mission of giving
first-generation college students and other under-represented
populations unique opportunities to fulfill the American dream of
attending medical school," said St. Thomas
University President David A.
Armstrong, J.D.
About St. Thomas
University
St. Thomas
University (STU) is a private, non-profit Catholic
institution committed to the academic and professional success of
its students who become ethical leaders in our global community.
Rich with cultural and international diversity, STU is the only
Catholic, Archdiocesan university in Florida. On our beautiful
campus and online, the university's College of Health Sciences
& Technology, Benjamin L. Crump
College of Law, Gus Machado
College of Business, and Biscayne College for Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences offer 61 undergraduate, graduate, and
post-graduate degree programs. In 2020, STU launched our
Limitless five-year strategic plan, based on the pillars of
limitless Devotion, limitless Opportunities, and limitless Results.
The plan was conceived to provide students with a magical
collegiate experience that incorporates mentoring faculty,
character formation activities outside the classroom, and required
real-world experience before graduation.
About Lake Erie College of
Osteopathic Medicine
Founded in 1992, now in its
31st year, the Lake Erie
College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) has grown to become
one of the largest medical schools in the country. Enrollment in
the College of Osteopathic Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of
Dental Medicine, School of Podiatric Medicine, School of Health
Services Administration, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
has surpassed 4,400 students at campuses in Erie and Greensburg,
Pa., Bradenton, Fla., and
Elmira, N.Y. LECOM consistently
graduates more primary care physicians than any other U.S. medical
college while maintaining one of the lowest tuitions of any private
medical school in the country. The college is the core of the
nation's only osteopathic academic health center, LECOM Health, a
highly innovative, multifaceted health care and education system.
Today nearly 17,000 LECOM alumni are providing health care to
patients across the U.S.
Contact: Dan Axelrod |
St. Thomas University |
379224@email4pr.com | 305.474.2418
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