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You have this backwards. NO top school beats Penn for undergraduate closeness and convenience to world-class medical and health care internships and research opportunities. Penn’s top-ranked medical school is on the very same campus as its undergrads, as are its top-ranked Vet School (which does a lot of research relevant to human medicine), its top-ranked Nursing School, its top-ranked Dental School, and SEVERAL top-ranked hospitals and medical research facilities (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, The Wistar Institute, and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center). No other top school offers such a broad, comprehensive, and world-class medical research complex on the same campus as undergrads (certainly not Columbia), and Penn goes out of its way to make research opportunities available to undergrads through its Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF), which maintains a comprehensive listing of research positions available specifically to undergrads. </p>