Most Caribbean medical schools don’t publish their attrition rates online.
So, we conducted a simple study in order to estimate the dropout rates at the Big Four (Saint George’s University, Saba, American University of the Caribbean, and Ross).
We reached out to at least 10 students and alumni from each school and asked them to estimate their school’s attrition rate. We then averaged their responses.
Here are the results.
| School | Estimated Attrition Rate (%) |
|---|---|
| American University of the Caribbean | 20.4 |
| St. George's University | 26.3 |
| Saba University | 35.0 |
| Ross University | 41.7 |
AUC appears to have the lowest dropout rate at around 20%, while Ross has the highest.
Obviously, this is a small sample size. Because of this, these results don’t reflect the actual attrition rates at these schools by any means.
However, it does give us some insight into those rates.
Notes:
We reached out to students/alumni in ~2017.
SGU is the one school I could find that has an attrition rate on its website (7-12%). However, the statistic doesn’t appear to be a hard ‘average’, as the post says the dropout rate is ‘”usually” between 7-12 percent. So, I would take this stat with a grain of salt as well.