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Medical schools

Medical schools

360 schools whose graduates practice in the U.S. and are enrolled in Medicare: how many, where they work now, and in which specialties.

Where U.S.-trained physicians work

Each state is shaded by the share of its physicians who graduated from a U.S. medical school, among physicians enrolled in Medicare. The rest graduated from a school abroad (international medical graduates), or Medicare does not record their school. Medicare’s records do not say where each school is, so schools themselves are not mapped here: open a school below to see the states where its graduates practice.

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In the lists below, the number after each school is how many of its graduates now practice in the U.S. and are enrolled in Medicare (doctors, dentists and other clinicians counted at their practice address). Select a school to see where they work, their specialties and when they graduated.

Medical schools (MD)

Osteopathic medical schools (DO)

Dental schools

Optometry schools

Podiatry schools

Chiropractic colleges

Other schools

Numbers are graduates practicing in the U.S. and enrolled in Medicare.

Source: Medicare Care Compare (Doctors and Clinicians), which lists the school and graduation year of clinicians enrolled in Medicare; practice addresses from the NPPES NPI Registry. Clinicians not enrolled in Medicare, and graduates of schools outside the U.S., are not included.

About this page

Compare medical schools by where their graduates practice. For every U.S. medical (MD) and osteopathic (DO) school, and for dental, optometry, podiatry and chiropractic schools, we count the graduates now practicing and enrolled in Medicare. Then we map the states where they work, list their most common specialties and show when they graduated.

What each medical school page shows

  • How many graduates practice in the U.S. and are enrolled in Medicare.
  • An interactive map of the share of graduates in each state.
  • Their most common specialties, and the decades they graduated in.

Why it matters where medical schools’ graduates go

Many graduates stay near their school, especially if they also train there. For example, a state school often keeps most of its graduates in state. In contrast, some private schools send graduates across the country. As a result, applicants who want to practice in one state can see which schools keep graduates there.

About the map

The map on this page shows the share of physicians in each state who graduated from a U.S. school. The rest trained abroad, or Medicare does not record their school. School data comes from the CMS Doctors and Clinicians (opens in a new tab) file. However, it covers only clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

Related: which schools keep graduates in state, MD vs DO, how to choose a specialty.

Questions about medical schools

Which medical schools have the most graduates in practice? Open the list below and sort by graduates. Large, older schools usually have the most. However, newer schools have fewer graduates simply because they have had fewer classes.

Does Medicare record every graduate? No. We count graduates enrolled in Medicare, which covers most practicing physicians but not all. In addition, Medicare does not record the school for some clinicians.