The Indiana University School of Medicine is a medical school and medical research center connected to Indiana University; its principal research and medical center is on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis. The medical school awarded the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree to its first class in 1907. With more than 2,000 students in 2013, it is currently the third largest medical school in the United States (the largest is the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine). The School offers several joint-degree programs, including an MD/MBA, MD/MA, MD/MPH, and an NIH-designated Medical Scientist Training Program, a highly competitive subset of MD-PhD programs. For the 2012 entering class, there were 335 students enrolled in the MD program.