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Hi,
I’ve been having this question for a long time: does the college that you attend have a huge impact on getting jobs in future?
I wanna be in the medical field, and I’m thinkinh about anesthesiology.
As I know, the yearly salary for an anesthesiologist is around $310k-$410.
If I attend colleges that are not on the top 50 will I still be able to make the same salary?
P.s: I’m super passionate and hardworking.
Thank u!

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An anesthesiologist is a physician. That means you’d need to go to medical school after college, and then do a residency in anesthesiology.

The amount that you earn as a physician has nothing to do with where you went to undergrad or med school.

Doctors aren’t paid more money or less money based on where they were educated.

So, no, you don’t have to go to a top 50 school.

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Where you go to undergrad does not matter a lot for where you go to medical school. Where you go to medical school does matter for your fellowship, and where you do your fellowship matters for jobs, especially for academic medicine. There are lots or roads that you can travel. Military service is a common way of graduating medical school debt free and you will have a guaranteed job afterwards, and can move on to the private or academic sectors afterwards. Some use student loan forgiveness when working for public or state hospitals.

If you are going into private practice it matters a lot less.

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^The above is true, but there are a couple of other things:

  1. Although your medical school does matter for your fellowship, and your fellowship matters somewhat for jobs, all American medical schools are good and will allow you to practice as an anesthesiologist. So unless you intend on a fancypants medical center or want to be a professor of medicine, you don’t have to go to a top shelf medical school.

  2. Military service in and of itself does not allow you to graduate from medical school debt free. There is a special scholarship offered by three branches of the military - the Health Professions Scholarship Program - that will cover most of your costs for medical school (tuition, fees, required books and equipment, plus a modest monthly stipend). The scholarship is competitive, of course. As with most military scholarships, it also comes with a service obligation - one year for every year of scholarship support, with an additional obligation for residency and fellowship support. The military will also control where and to a certain extent how you practice medicine, and you may have to serve before you complete your fellowship for anesthesiology (in other words, serve as a primary care doctor for 4 years before leaving the military and returning to complete the fellowship to become an anesthesiologist. The military needs more PCPs than it needs specialists). It’s still a really good deal for any aspiring doctor who has no qualms with military service, but it’s not free money.