Statistics for Undergrad University on Medical Admissions

If you are a high schooler looking to be pre-med in university, you may be wondering which universities have the best pre-med programs. Unfortunately, there is no one metric for how pre-med programs can be ranked. The strength of the program comes down to factors such as access to research, difficulty of classes, pre-med class preparation for MCAT, strength of pre-med advising office (even if the university even has one), clinical experience opportunities, student clubs, volunteering opportunities, and so much more.

For now, we will look at surrogate markers for the strength of pre-med programs at different universities. If you are applying to colleges soon, I highly recommend you check out the schools on these lists.

Most Pre-Med Applicants

Source: AAMC

1. University of California–Los Angeles: 1,195

2. University of Texas at Austin: 993

3. University of Florida: 860

4. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor: 824

5. University of California–Berkeley: 735

6. University of California–San Diego: 646

7. University of Georgia: 591

8. Texas A&M University: 579

9. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 541

10. The Ohio State University: 522

11. University of Virginia: 511

12. University of Wisconsin-Madison: 510

13. Johns Hopkins University: 506

14. University of California-Davis: 481

NIH Funding

NIH funding can be used as a proxy for how strong the research centers are at the university / near the university. More funding = more exciting research, better PIs, more opportunities to do research

Fiscal Year 2010: Source

1. Johns Hopkins University: $610,467,293

2. University of Pennsylvania: $481,559,772

3. University of California San Francisco: $475,400,165

4. University of Washington: $474,042,118

5. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: $470,517,923

6. University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh: $424,154,899

7. University of California San Diego: $390,832,339

8. Washington University: $386,470,071

9. Yale University: $378,805,446

10. University of California Los Angeles: $368,854,137

11. Duke University: $351,616,899

12. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: $341,434,146

13. Stanford University: $339,893,354

14. Vanderbilt University: $322,051,798

15. Columbia University Health Sciences: $290,724,425

16. Emory University: $262,572,191

17. University of Minnesota Twin Cities: $255,160,166

18. University of Wisconsin Madison: $248,762,869

Matriculants to Yale Medical School

Below are the most common universities that compromised the Yale Medical School Class of 2026.

Source: Yale

• Columbia University

• University of California-Berkeley

• University of Pennsylvania

• Yale University

• Vanderbilt University

• Georgetown University

• Stanford University

• Brown University

• University of Chicago

• Duke University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matriculants to WashU Medical School

Below are the most common universities that compromised the WashU Medical School Class of 2022.

Source: WashU

• Washington University (14)

• Princeton University (6)

• University of California, Los Angeles (6)

• Johns Hopkins University (5)

• University of Notre Dame (5)

• Cornell University (4)

• University of Utah (4)

• Duke University (3)

• Harvard University (3)

• Rice University (3)

• Stanford University (3)

• University of Michigan (3)

• University of Virginia (3)