Debt for graduates of Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin was half the national average last year, a 2025 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows.
According to the report, medical students in the U.S. graduated with an average debt of $206,924 last year, while the average debt of Dell Med grads was $103,174 — putting the school among the top 10 in the U.S. where students graduate with the least debt.
Dell Med students, whose graduating classes have accomplished a 100% match rate for the past two years, go on to residencies at prestigious programs, including Yale, Duke, Dartmouth, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and more. To date, more than $9.5 million has been awarded to students in the form of scholarship support.
“Our students are motivated to practice medicine in way that makes people and systems healthier, and we equip them with every opportunity possible to focus on that charge,” says Beth Nelson, M.D., interim vice dean for education. “79% of our students earn a dual degree during their time here while still graduating in four years, meaning they’re prepared to lead meaningful change in the health care system through business, engineering and public health, just as they are ready to care for the patients in front of them.”
Nelson was an architect of Dell Med’s signature Leading EDGE curriculum. Among the curriculum’s differentiators is its focus on integrating interprofessional education, described as “a model program worthy of emulation by other medical schools” by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting body for medical school education programs.