Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons – New York

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons dates back more than 250 years, to 1767 when Columbia University, then only a 13-year-old college known as King’s College, established a medical faculty. The medical faculty was created two years after the University of Pennsylvania started a medical faculty, but Columbia’s medical school was the first in the American Colonies to grant the MD degree, in 1770.