Medical school admissions trends (2021-2025): Total applicants changed from 1,099,071 to 1,046,556 (-4.78%). Matriculants moved from 38,603 to 40,300 (4.40%). Overall acceptance rate evolved from 3.52% to 3.80%.
At a glance: Medical School Admissions 2021-2025
- Applicants: 1,099,071 → 1,046,556 (-4.78%)
- Matriculants: 38,603 → 40,300 (4.40%)
- Acceptance rate: 3.52% → 3.80% (0.29)
- Breakdowns
- Applicants Men: 493,334 → 456,721 (-7.42%)
- Applicants Women: 604,799 → 583,280 (-3.56%)
- Matriculants Men: 10,097 → 10,334 (2.35%)
- Matriculants Women: 12,555 → 12,762 (1.65%)
- Applicants (In-state): 249,412 → 231,671 (-7.11%)
- Applicants (Out-of-state): 849,659 → 814,885 (-4.09%)
- Matriculants (In-state): 13,666 → 13,849 (1.34%)
- Matriculants (Out-of-state): 9,006 → 9,379 (4.14%)
Analysis of Medical School Admissions by Gender
- Higher Volume of Female Applicants: Throughout the period, the number of female applicants consistently exceeded male applicants. In 2025, there were 583,280 female applicants compared to 456,721 male applicants.
- Decrease in Applicants: The total number of applicants decreased for both genders between 2021 and 2025. However, the decrease was significantly sharper for males (-7.42%) than for females (-3.56%).
- Overall Increase in Enrollment: Both genders saw a slight increase in the number of matriculants over the period. The increase in male matriculants (2.35%) was slightly higher than the increase for female matriculants (1.65%).
- Low Acceptance Rates Steadily: Medical school acceptance rates for both genders remained extremely low and stable throughout the period.
Analysis of Medical School Admissions by Residency Status
The key takeaway is that in-state applicants maintain a vastly higher acceptance rate compared to out-of-state applicants, a pattern that strengthened slightly over the period.
- Substantial Gap: The acceptance rate for in-state applicants is approximately five times higher than for out-of-state applicants, reflecting the strong preference public medical schools give to residents.
- Rate Improvement: The acceptance rate increased for both groups between 2021 and 2025, primarily due to a drop in the total number of applicants. The in-state rate saw a larger absolute improvement of 0.49 percentage points.
- Applicants: The in-state applicant pool shrank more significantly (-7.11%) than the out-of-state pool (-4.09%).
- Matriculants: While both groups saw an increase in the number of accepted students, the out-of-state matriculant group experienced a much greater percentage growth in enrollment (4.14%) compared to the in-state group (1.34%). This suggests schools are slightly increasing their enrollment of out-of-state residents, despite the highly competitive acceptance rate.
Acceptance Rate Changes For All Medical Schools (2021-2025)
This table presents the acceptance rate changes by institution for each year from 2021-2025. It shows year-over-year acceptance rate values, inline percent changes when available, You can check the actual number of applicants and matriculants by gender and residency status at each school's page.
Medical School Acceptance Rate Changes by School (2021-2025)| School | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| University of Alabama School of Medicine | 3.22% | 3.96% | 4.18% | 4.39% | 4.66% |
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| University of South Alabama College of Medicine | 4.04% | 4.33% | 4.92% | 5.49% | 4.14% |
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| Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine | 1.99% | 2.05% | 1.96% | 1.90% | 1.84% |
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| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson | 1.37% | 1.62% | 1.68% | 1.80% | 1.61% |
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| The University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix | 1.79% | 1.89% | 2.04% | 2.34% | 2.23% |
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| University of Arkansas College of Medicine | 5.60% | 6.76% | 7.18% | 6.23% | 5.21% |
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| California Northstate University College of Medicine | 1.85% | 2.51% | 3.23% | 3.17% | 3.46% |
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| California University of Science and Medicine | 2.05% | 2.43% | 2.68% | 2.88% | 2.81% |
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| Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science | — | — | 6.26% | 1.41% | 0.90% |
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| Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine | 0.43% | 0.61% | 0.65% | 0.67% | 0.74% |
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| Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California | 1.95% | 2.09% | 2.15% | 1.39% | 1.25% |
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| Loma Linda University School of Medicine | 2.56% | 2.82% | 3.43% | 3.13% | 3.12% |
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| Stanford University School of Medicine | 0.79% | 1.07% | 1.01% | 1.00% | 0.92% |
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| University of California, Davis School of Medicine | 1.36% | 1.69% | 1.67% | 1.78% | 1.68% |
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| University of California, Irvine School of Medicine | 1.39% | 1.70% | 1.62% | 1.65% | 1.53% |
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| David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | 1.22% | 1.32% | 1.34% | 1.56% | 1.40% |
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| University of California, Riverside School of Medicine | 1.27% | 1.29% | 1.42% | 1.35% | 1.38% |
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| University of California, San Diego School of Medicine | 1.48% | 1.71% | 1.61% | 1.64% | 1.35% |
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| University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine | 1.79% | 2.00% | 1.96% | 1.82% | 1.71% |
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| University of Colorado School of Medicine | 1.29% | 1.65% | 1.84% | 1.82% | 1.74% |
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| Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University | 1.02% | 1.27% | 1.26% | 1.29% | 1.01% |
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| University of Connecticut School of Medicine | 2.33% | 2.73% | 2.58% | 2.42% | 1.99% |
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| Yale School of Medicine | 1.43% | 1.64% | 1.64% | 1.58% | 1.41% |
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| George Washington University Medical School | 1.09% | 1.19% | 1.11% | 1.13% | 0.76% |
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| Georgetown University School of Medicine | 1.14% | 1.27% | 1.25% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
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| Howard University College of Medicine | 1.09% | 1.37% | 1.50% | 1.50% | 1.44% |
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| Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University | 1.09% | 1.41% | 1.65% | 1.86% | 1.87% |
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| Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University | 1.82% | 1.78% | 1.94% | 1.98% | 2.01% |
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| Florida State University College of Medicine | 1.47% | 1.69% | 1.79% | 1.86% | 1.78% |
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| Nova Southeastern University Dr Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine | 0.82% | 0.82% | 0.95% | 1.14% | 1.12% |
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| University of Central Florida College of Medicine | 2.02% | 2.17% | 2.42% | 2.41% | 2.22% |
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| University of Florida College of Medicine | 3.03% | 2.50% | 2.54% | 2.52% | 2.42% |
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| University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine | 1.80% | 1.85% | 1.99% | 2.61% | 2.04% |
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| University of South Florida College of Medicine | 2.77% | 3.14% | 3.30% | 2.33% | 2.31% |
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| Emory University School of Medicine | 0.94% | 1.18% | 1.08% | 1.16% | 1.07% |
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| Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University | 7.64% | 7.41% | 7.92% | 9.37% | 9.03% |
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| Mercer University School of Medicine | 9.97% | 11.35% | 12.58% | 14.37% | 14.13% |
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| Morehouse School of Medicine | 1.31% | 1.76% | 1.57% | 1.53% | 1.60% |
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| University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine | 2.66% | 2.76% | 3.24% | 3.47% | 3.25% |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carle Illinois College of Medicine | 1.90% | 2.02% | 2.25% | 2.55% | 2.22% |
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| Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine | 1.06% | 1.27% | 1.42% | 1.41% | 1.32% |
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| Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | 1.95% | 1.86% | 1.85% | 1.72% | 1.63% |
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| Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | 1.32% | 1.70% | 2.03% | 1.83% | 1.70% |
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| Rush Medical College at Rush University | 1.31% | 1.13% | 1.18% | 1.10% | 1.09% |
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| Southern Illinois University School of Medicine | 6.07% | 6.62% | 7.11% | 7.30% | 6.57% |
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| University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine | 1.22% | 1.39% | 1.34% | 1.42% | 1.18% |
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| University of Illinois College of Medicine | 4.16% | 3.73% | 3.18% | 3.09% | 2.68% |
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| Indiana University School of Medicine - Evansville | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Indiana University School of Medicine | 5.06% | 5.39% | 5.96% | 5.74% | 4.68% |
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| University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine | 3.63% | 4.02% | 4.48% | 3.99% | 3.38% |
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| University of Kansas School of Medicine | 6.44% | 8.26% | 6.56% | 4.45% | 4.24% |
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| University of Kentucky College of Medicine | 5.30% | 5.14% | 4.85% | 4.73% | 3.61% |
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| University of Louisville School of Medicine | 3.15% | 3.19% | 2.92% | 3.24% | 3.16% |
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| Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans | 4.09% | 4.56% | 5.01% | 5.84% | 5.05% |
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| Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport | 2.65% | 3.38% | 3.69% | 4.15% | 4.69% |
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| Tulane University School of Medicine | 1.10% | 1.19% | 1.21% | 1.41% | 1.38% |
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| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | 1.70% | 1.86% | 2.01% | 2.07% | 1.46% |
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| Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine | 5.28% | 6.26% | 6.99% | 8.08% | 7.91% |
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| University of Maryland School of Medicine | 2.24% | 2.38% | 2.59% | 2.50% | 2.38% |
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| Boston University School of Medicine | 1.26% | 1.40% | 1.38% | 1.31% | 1.21% |
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| Harvard Medical School | 1.78% | 2.10% | 2.07% | 2.09% | 1.99% |
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| Tufts University School of Medicine | 1.26% | 1.42% | 1.45% | 1.42% | 1.32% |
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| University of Massachusetts Medical School | 3.14% | 3.25% | 3.80% | 4.79% | 4.14% |
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| Central Michigan University College of Medicine | 1.40% | 1.29% | 1.27% | 1.38% | 1.22% |
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| Michigan State University College of Human Medicine | 1.67% | 2.06% | 2.61% | 2.49% | 2.33% |
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| University of Michigan Medical School | 1.60% | 1.79% | 1.84% | 1.83% | 1.63% |
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| Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine | 1.53% | 1.62% | 1.66% | 1.83% | 1.66% |
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| Wayne State University School of Medicine | 2.93% | 3.74% | 3.79% | 3.47% | 2.86% |
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| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine | 1.93% | 2.00% | 2.05% | 1.99% | 1.46% |
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| University of Minnesota Medical School | 3.43% | 4.56% | 4.03% | 4.13% | 3.86% |
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| University of Mississippi School of Medicine | 37.00% | 38.95% | 44.47% | 46.29% | 52.15% |
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| Saint Louis University School of Medicine | 2.19% | 2.48% | 2.93% | 3.03% | 2.61% |
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| University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine | 4.06% | 4.00% | 4.74% | 5.10% | 3.70% |
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| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine | 7.18% | 6.29% | 7.18% | 6.70% | 8.43% |
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| Washington University School of Medicine | 2.17% | 2.02% | 2.18% | 2.27% | 2.00% |
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| Creighton University School of Medicine | 3.25% | 3.60% | 4.05% | 4.34% | 4.06% |
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| University of Nebraska College of Medicine | 6.97% | 6.91% | 6.37% | 5.47% | 6.14% |
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| University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine | 3.00% | 3.99% | 4.23% | 3.81% | 2.78% |
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| University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine | 4.28% | 4.50% | 4.21% | 4.10% | 3.02% |
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| Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine | 0.87% | 0.97% | 1.08% | 1.13% | 0.93% |
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| Cooper Medical School of Rowan University | 1.82% | 2.19% | 2.46% | 2.42% | 2.55% |
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| Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine | 2.59% | 2.73% | 2.62% | 3.28% | 2.91% |
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| Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | 2.65% | 2.98% | 2.97% | 2.60% | 2.69% |
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| Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | 2.65% | 2.98% | 2.97% | 2.60% | 2.69% |
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| University of New Mexico School of Medicine | 5.83% | 6.95% | 5.38% | 5.93% | 5.99% |
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| Albany Medical College | 1.04% | 1.11% | 1.08% | 1.08% | 1.00% |
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| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 1.87% | 1.87% | 2.03% | 1.85% | 1.05% |
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| Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | 1.71% | 1.97% | 1.92% | 1.89% | 1.80% |
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| CUNY School of Medicine | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
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| Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell | 1.63% | 1.81% | 1.97% | 2.07% | 1.94% |
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| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 1.36% | 1.45% | 1.41% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
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| New York Medical College | 1.40% | 1.75% | 2.08% | 2.41% | 2.45% |
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| New York University School of Medicine | 1.12% | 1.26% | 1.24% | 1.26% | 1.18% |
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| New York University Long Island School of Medicine | 0.55% | 0.60% | 0.59% | 0.55% | 0.51% |
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| Stony Brook University School of Medicine | 2.31% | 2.40% | 2.49% | 2.56% | 2.48% |
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| SUNY Upstate Medical University | 2.99% | 3.21% | 3.11% | 2.59% | 2.94% |
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| SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine | 2.98% | 3.24% | 2.97% | 3.05% | 2.63% |
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| Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo | 3.01% | 3.56% | 3.03% | 3.11% | 2.97% |
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| University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry | 1.59% | 1.73% | 1.68% | 1.72% | 1.75% |
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| Weill Cornell Medical College | 1.34% | 1.34% | 1.47% | 1.44% | 1.23% |
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| The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University | 7.11% | 7.35% | 8.22% | 7.51% | 4.01% |
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| Duke University School of Medicine | 1.36% | 1.39% | 1.40% | 1.44% | 1.33% |
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| University of North Carolina School of Medicine | 2.93% | 3.02% | 3.51% | 3.42% | 3.66% |
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| Wake Forest School of Medicine | 1.33% | 1.31% | 1.20% | 1.19% | 1.52% |
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| University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences | 3.54% | 3.75% | 4.48% | 4.64% | 4.02% |
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| Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University | 1.43% | 1.72% | 2.01% | 2.06% | 2.14% |
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| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | 2.45% | 2.66% | 2.51% | 2.55% | 2.28% |
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| Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine | 3.38% | 3.38% | 3.73% | 3.46% | 4.03% |
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| The Ohio State University College of Medicine | 2.47% | 2.87% | 2.74% | 2.84% | 2.43% |
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| University of Cincinnati College of Medicine | 2.93% | 2.99% | 2.86% | 2.95% | 2.64% |
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| University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences | 2.62% | 2.67% | 3.14% | 2.84% | 2.64% |
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| University of Oklahoma College of Medicine | 5.91% | 6.70% | 7.92% | 8.78% | 7.80% |
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| University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine | 1.87% | 2.31% | 2.38% | 2.65% | 2.11% |
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| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | 1.62% | 1.85% | 2.19% | 2.03% | 1.78% |
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| Drexel University College of Medicine | 1.82% | 1.90% | 1.92% | 1.94% | 1.84% |
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| Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine | 1.17% | 1.32% | 1.31% | — | — |
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| Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | 2.13% | 2.35% | 2.61% | 2.45% | 2.16% |
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| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University | 2.34% | 2.45% | 2.49% | 2.61% | 2.38% |
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| Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University | 1.50% | 1.71% | 1.66% | 1.71% | 1.59% |
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| University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | 1.84% | 1.82% | 1.69% | 1.79% | 1.27% |
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| Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine | 6.74% | 7.79% | 9.45% | 8.11% | 6.23% |
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| Ponce School of Medicine | 8.52% | 11.17% | 9.70% | 8.98% | 8.60% |
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| San Juan Bautista School of Medicine | 4.28% | 4.83% | 5.52% | 5.71% | 4.44% |
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| University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine | 10.21% | 13.99% | 13.90% | 16.06% | 13.11% |
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| Alpert Medical School at Brown University | 1.52% | 1.70% | 1.62% | 1.73% | 1.57% |
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| Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine | 4.44% | 4.32% | 4.67% | 4.74% | 5.24% |
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| University of South Carolina School of Medicine | 3.20% | 3.07% | 3.50% | 3.31% | 3.29% |
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| University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville | 3.20% | 3.07% | 3.50% | 3.31% | 3.29% |
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| Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota | 6.77% | 8.18% | 6.36% | 6.49% | 6.60% |
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| East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine | 2.55% | 2.05% | 1.94% | 2.59% | 1.95% |
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| Meharry Medical College School of Medicine | 1.19% | 1.42% | 1.54% | 1.47% | 1.45% |
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| University of Tennessee College of Medicine | 5.77% | 6.38% | 6.65% | 6.66% | 6.34% |
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| Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 1.28% | 1.31% | 1.45% | 1.50% | 1.24% |
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| Baylor College of Medicine | 2.40% | 3.15% | 4.06% | 4.02% | 3.69% |
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| Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine | 3.40% | 3.44% | 3.56% | 3.55% | 3.29% |
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| Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University | 0.73% | 0.95% | 0.94% | 0.91% | — |
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| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine | 2.13% | 2.58% | 2.72% | 2.74% | 2.70% |
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| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine | 3.01% | 3.43% | 3.64% | 3.68% | 3.40% |
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| University of Houston College of Medicine | 0.50% | 1.12% | 1.23% | 1.25% | 1.14% |
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| The University of Texas Medical Branch | 3.68% | 4.17% | 4.47% | 4.51% | 4.22% |
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| UTHealth John P. and Katherine G. McGovern Medical School | 3.61% | 4.00% | 4.25% | 4.21% | 3.93% |
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| UT Health San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine | 3.29% | 3.91% | 4.31% | 4.22% | 4.02% |
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| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine | 1.04% | 1.16% | 1.18% | 1.22% | 1.15% |
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| University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas | 3.54% | 4.12% | 4.20% | 3.96% | 3.80% |
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| Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin | 0.81% | 0.90% | 0.95% | 0.95% | 0.88% |
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| University of Utah School of Medicine | 3.29% | 3.19% | 4.12% | 5.01% | 4.05% |
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| University of Vermont College of Medicine | 1.41% | 1.33% | 1.42% | 1.33% | 1.18% |
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| Eastern Virginia Medical School | 1.70% | 1.98% | 2.11% | 1.97% | 1.98% |
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| University of Virginia School of Medicine | 2.40% | 2.54% | 2.78% | 2.64% | 2.18% |
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| VCU School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Health Sciences Division | 2.28% | 2.50% | 2.61% | 2.80% | 2.22% |
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| Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute | 0.77% | 0.72% | 0.81% | 0.89% | 0.86% |
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| University of Washington School of Medicine | 2.82% | 3.54% | 3.89% | 5.42% | 5.31% |
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| Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine | 4.56% | 5.54% | 4.96% | 5.11% | 5.08% |
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| Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University | 3.45% | 4.18% | 3.91% | 3.87% | 2.71% |
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| West Virginia University School of Medicine | 2.21% | 2.36% | 2.14% | 2.18% | 1.82% |
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| Medical College of Wisconsin | 2.38% | 2.64% | 2.75% | 2.86% | 2.56% |
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| University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | 2.67% | 3.07% | 2.68% | 2.43% | 2.21% |
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| The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine | — | — | 1.06% | 0.86% | 0.80% |
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| Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University | — | — | — | 3.66% | 1.91% |
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| Alice L. Walton School of Medicine | — | — | — | — | 2.38% |
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| Roseman University College of Medicine | — | — | — | — | 8.08% |
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