Plans to open a for-profit medical school affiliated with Morgan State University have fallen badly behind schedule.
When the college, called the Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine, was first announced in 2020, it was slated to open by this year. Now, its founding dean, John Sealey, says it will accept its first class in 2026; the building, which has not yet begun construction, will open in 2027.
Sealey also noted that Salud Education LLC, the company partnering with Morgan State to open the college, said it planned to apply for pre-accreditation at the end of last month. It previously applied for accreditation in 2022, but the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation told the Baltimore Banner newspaper that it hasn’t yet achieved “candidate status.”
If it opens, the Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine will become one of the first new medical school based at a historically Black university in 50 years, Xavier University in New Orleans is also in the process of opening a medical school.