1. UCSF School of Medicine
Location: San Francisco, California
Tuition: $32,365
PGY 1 salary: $55,566
What’s really great about UCSF School of Medicine, which comes first among top 12 anesthesiology residency programs in 2018, is the fact that together with the scholarship your salary will be astounding $67,666! That’s so far the best deal you when it comes to the money matters. USCF takes pride in diversity, too, and you can read about residents’ experiences and why they chose this school among so many others. The diversity of patients is one of them (as they say, “from the veterans at the VA, to the trauma and underserved at SFGH, to the complex ‘zebras’ at Moffitt”), but the diversity of residents was also a deciding factor. Plenty of learning opportunities, and a beautiful city to live in.