Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine
Bryan, TX · Four Regional Campuses · 200 students per class
Program Statistics
$20M
NIH funding · FY2025
Clinical training & research
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★★★★★CHI St. Joseph Health Regional Hospital
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★★★★★Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – College Station
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★★★★★Houston Methodist Hospital
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★★★★★St. Joseph Medical Center
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★★★★★Baylor University Medical Center
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★★★★★Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
★ CMS overall hospital rating (1–5). Children's, cancer and psychiatric hospitals aren't rated.
$20M
NIH · FY2025
+51% since FY2021
Top NIH-funded departments
- Other Basic Sciences$7M
- Microbiology / Immun / Virology$4M
- Anatomy / Cell Biology$4M
- 25 recruiting clinical trials
Programs & admissions
Tracks & programs
- EnMedMD + Master of Engineering · Houston
- AIMLongitudinal integrated curriculum · Bryan–College Station
Dual degrees
- MD/PhD
- Application
- TMDSAS
- MCAT
- Taken within five years of enrollment
- Interviews
- About 740 applicants a year (five-year average)
- Tuition
- Use Texas A&M’s tuition calculator (Vashisht College of Medicine)
Sources: Texas A&M Catalog, Vashisht College of Medicine admission · Texas A&M MD Program Information (campus tracks) · Bryan-College Station Regional Campus · Houston Regional Campus · Dallas Regional Campus · Round Rock Regional Campus · Engineering Medicine (EnMed) Program · Vital Record, College of Medicine debuts new name · Census QuickFacts (Brazos County, TX) · NIH RePORTER · ClinicalTrials.gov · CMS Care Compare
Program Highlights
Four Campus Tracks
Every student starts with an 18-month pre-clerkship phase, and the class of about 200 is spread across campus tracks for clerkships: Bryan–College Station (with the AIM longitudinal integrated curriculum), Dallas, Round Rock, and Houston.
The college was renamed the Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine in August 2025, after a gift that funds full-tuition scholarships, research, and the Rural Medicine Program.
EnMed in Houston
EnMed is a fully integrated engineering and medicine track based in the Texas Medical Center for all four years. Students earn an MD and a Master of Engineering, in partnership with Houston Methodist.
Caleb, an EnMed student, describes a small cohort of 34, a flipped classroom with faculty-led discussions and team-based learning, and a cap of 15 mandatory hours a week in pre-clerkship.
A School That Listens
Caleb calls the program incredibly responsive to student feedback. Students sit on curriculum committees, and their proposals moved pre-clerkship to true pass/fail and unranked, cut mandatory sessions, and reworked courses.
Caleb describes Practice of Medicine courses that build the physical exam, clinical reasoning with standardized patients, and weekly half-day preceptorships before clerkships.
Life in Houston
For EnMed students, Houston offers nightlife, parks, museums, world-class food, and baseball. Caleb bikes to the hospital and parks free in the medical center.
The downsides Caleb lists: no hills to climb, horrible traffic, and a city that isn’t very walkable outside the medical center area.
Sources: DocStory interview with Caleb · Texas A&M MD Program Information (campus tracks) · Engineering Medicine (EnMed) Program
Student Voices
1 interview from current and former Texas A&M students