Your Pathway to Becoming a Doctor starts at Saba
Start your journey towards becoming an MD
Saba University School of Medicine is one of the world’s leading international medical schools, with a 30-year history of educating outstanding doctors. Saba students earn top residencies at medical centers across the U.S. and Canada. Are you ready to become a Saba doctor?
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Discover where Saba is located
For a place free of distractions to focus on the demanding preclinical curriculum of medical school, you won’t do better than Saba.
Located just 28 miles (15 minutes by air) from St. Maarten, the island nation of Saba is small, quiet and extremely safe with something for everyone to enjoy: from quaint villages and mountain hiking trails to pristine scuba diving and well-regarded inns and restaurants. In short, Saba is a perfect place to study hard and, when time allows, enjoy the best of what the Caribbean has to offer.Discover more
Why choose Saba?


Small Class Sizes
Small Class Sizes: Encouraging a uniquely close relationship between student and professor, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 7:1
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Faculty
Saba faculty have exceptional qualifications, with an advanced degree or doctorate
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Excellent USMLE Results
100% USMLE Step 1 Exam first-time pass rate (2021) - a consistently strong performance.

Residency Placements
Residency Placements: 94% of eligible Saba graduates attained residencies between 2019 and 2021
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A day in the life of a Saba student
"I actually enjoyed human medicine more than veterinary medicine, which led me to change my route."
Jaclyn Rivington
Graduate. Residency: Case Western Reserve, Internal Medicine
"Saba had the highest percentage of Canadian students, getting Canadian residencies."
Emilie Boucher
Graduate. Residency, University of Toronto
"My friend went to Saba and had nothing but good things to say about it."
Amit Kainth
Graduate. Residency, University of Washington
"I learned to the highest of standards of what I could learn whilst at Saba."
Nancy Fleming
2014 Graduate. Residency, Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine
"Saba was in the top 3 schools in the Caribbean when I undertook my research, which led me to do more research"
Tumushabe Mutungi
Graduate. Residency, University of Toronto