Medicine

A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of medicine, involving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses, injuries, and other disorders of the human body. Includes instruction in the basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, examination and diagnosis, patient communications, medical ethics and law, professional standards, and rotations in specialties such as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, neurology, ophthalmology, radiology, clinical pathology, anesthesiology, family medicine, and psychiatry.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 150 institutions across the United States, with a total of 62289 degrees awarded annually.

Doctoral Degrees

20,763

degrees awarded

Other Awards

41,526

awards given

Top Schools for Medicine

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	1,077
2	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	996
3	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	840
4	Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA	822
5	Wayne State University Detroit, MI	804
6	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	798
7	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	729
8	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX	720
9	Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI	720
10	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Galveston, TX	669
11	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX	663
12	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	660
13	Augusta University Augusta, GA	654
14	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	633
15	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	633
16	New York Medical College Valhalla, NY	618
17	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	609
18	Tufts University Medford, MA	606
19	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, TX	600
20	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	597
21	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	594
22	Georgetown University Washington, DC	591
23	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans New Orleans, LA	588
24	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Brooklyn, NY	570
25	University of Kentucky Lexington, KY	570
26	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA	567
27	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	564
28	University of California-San Francisco San Francisco, CA	564
29	George Washington University Washington, DC	558
30	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY	555
31	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	549
32	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	549
33	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	549
34	Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO	540
35	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	537
36	Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science North Chicago, IL	531
37	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	528
38	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	528
39	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	525
40	Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY	525
41	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock, TX	516
42	Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX	510
43	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO	510
44	University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL	504
45	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	501
46	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	501
47	Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR	498
48	Creighton University Omaha, NE	498
49	The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN	495
50	University of Mississippi University, MS	495
51	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	489
52	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	486
53	University of Toledo Toledo, OH	486
54	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	486
55	Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL	483
56	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	483
57	University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK	480
58	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	468
59	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR	465
60	Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC	462
61	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	453
62	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Worcester, MA	450
63	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	450
64	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	447
65	Boston University Boston, MA	447
66	Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA	447
67	Northeast Ohio Medical University Rootstown, OH	432
68	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport Shreveport, LA	429
69	Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA	426
70	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	426
71	Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	423
72	University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore, MD	420
73	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	420
74	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY	411
75	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	408
76	New York University New York, NY	408
77	Rush University Chicago, IL	408
78	Brown University Providence, RI	405
79	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	396
80	Mercer University Macon, GA	393
81	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	393
82	Albany Medical College Albany, NY	390
83	Emory University Atlanta, GA	387
84	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	375
85	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	375
86	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL	366
87	Florida International University Miami, FL	354
88	Duke University Durham, NC	351
89	University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE	351
90	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Rochester, MN	339
91	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	339
92	Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI	339
93	University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO	336
94	University of Vermont Burlington, VT	336
95	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	333
96	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	330
97	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	330
98	Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Scranton, PA	327
99	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	327
100	Wright State University-Main Campus Dayton, OH	324