Largest medical schools by degrees awarded
144 medical schools in the fifty states and DC awarded 20,929 Doctor of Medicine degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count. Indiana University-Indianapolis awarded the most, 354.
Doctor of Medicine degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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Puerto Rico and the other territories are listed beneath the ranking with their degrees and no national rank, as every ranking on this hub sets them apart from the fifty states and DC.
Medical schools by state
45 of the fifty states and DC have at least one, ranked by the Doctor of Medicine degrees their medical schools awarded; each links to its own ranking. 6 have none in NCES’s file: Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana and Wyoming.
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| Rank | State | Medical schools |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 14 |
| 2 | Texas | 12 |
| 3 | California | 10 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 7 |
| 5 | Illinois | 8 |
| 6 | Florida | 8 |
| 7 | Ohio | 6 |
| 8 | Michigan | 6 |
| 9 | Massachusetts | 4 |
| 10 | Georgia | 4 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 3 |
| 12 | Missouri | 4 |
| 13 | Virginia | 4 |
| 14 | North Carolina | 4 |
| 15 | Louisiana | 3 |
| 16 | District of Columbia | 3 |
| 17 | Wisconsin | 2 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 4 |
| 19 | South Carolina | 2 |
| 20 | Indiana | 1 |
| 21 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 22 | Kentucky | 2 |
| 23 | Washington | 2 |
| 24 | Minnesota | 2 |
| 25 | Connecticut | 3 |
| 26 | Maryland | 2 |
| 27 | Alabama | 2 |
| 28 | Arizona | 1 |
| 29 | Kansas | 1 |
| 30 | Colorado | 1 |
| 31 | West Virginia | 2 |
| 32 | Arkansas | 1 |
| 33 | Iowa | 1 |
| 34 | Mississippi | 1 |
| 35 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 36 | Rhode Island | 1 |
| 37 | Utah | 1 |
| 38 | Oregon | 1 |
| 39 | Nevada | 2 |
| 40 | Vermont | 1 |
| 41 | New Mexico | 1 |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 1 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 1 |
| 44 | North Dakota | 1 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 1 |
| Alaska | None | |
| Delaware | None | |
| Idaho | None | |
| Maine | None | |
| Montana | None | |
| Wyoming | None |
What this data cannot show
- A medical school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 51.1201, Medicine, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- 1 institution in NCES’s file awarded 111 Doctor of Medicine degrees and is not ranked here, because it has no college page: it is outside NCES’s First Look universe of colleges that take federal student aid.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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