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The medical schools where accepted students are most likely to attend are not in the Ivy League.
All 10 ranked schools with the highest yield rates in 2015 had yield rates that exceeded 75 percent, meaning that more than three-quarters of accepted students decided to enroll.
Nine of those schools are state schools, and eight rank more highly for primary care than research.
The school where the highest percentage of accepted students enrolled is the University of Washington, a public school with the No. 1-ranked primary care program.
This top-10 list primarily consists of schools where in-state tuition is available and less than $40,000 per year.
[See the 10 most affordable public medical schools for in-state students.]
One exception is California Northstate University, a new for-profit medical school where annual tuition is $52,675. Despite the cost, 77.9 percent of students admitted ultimately attended.
Though California Northstate does not have a published rank, it does share a focus on primary care with its peers in this list. The school’s mission is to address a national shortage of primary care providers.
[Discover six signs of a compassionate medical school.]
Among the nine state schools on this list, the average 2015-2016 in-state tuition is $26,078, lower than the national average for in-state medical school tuition: $32,495.
Medical schools where admitted students are most likely to accept admissions offers are concentrated in the geographic center of the U.S. Of the top 10 schools where admits typically attend, two are on the West Coast, two are on the East Coast and the rest are in landlocked states.
Midwestern state Oklahoma has two schools on this list. Rural states in America’s heartland have a severe shortage of primary care physicians, so the profession is in high demand in that region.
Below is a list of the 10 medical schools where the highest proportion of accepted students in 2015 enroll ed. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report.
| School name | Students accepted | Students enrolled | Yield percentage | U.S. News research rank | U.S. News primary care rank |
| University of Washington | 291 | 245 | 84.2 | 8 (tie) | 1 |
| University of New Mexico | 124 | 103 | 83.1 | 78 (tie) | 45 (tie) |
| University of Oklahoma | 199 | 161 | 80.9 | 72 | 65 (tie) |
| University of Kansas Medical Center | 262 | 211 | 80.5 | 69 (tie) | 40 (tie) |
| Florida State University | 151 | 120 | 79.5 | RNP* | 87 (tie) |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | 216 | 171 | 79.2 | 84 (tie) | 40 (tie) |
| California Northstate University | 77 | 60 | 77.9 | RNP | RNP |
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 234 | 181 | 77.4 | 22 | 2 |
| Oklahoma State University | 144 | 111 | 77.1 | RNP | 67 (tie) |
| University of Utah | 160 | 122 | 76.3 | 46 | 54 (tie) |
* RNP denotes an institution that is ranked in the bottom one-fourth of all rank-eligible medical and osteopathic schools. U.S. News calculates a rank for the school but has decided not to publish it.
Don’t see your school in the top 10? Access the U.S. News Medical School Compass to find yield rates, complete rankings and much more. School officials can access historical data and rankings, including of peer institutions, via U.S. News Academic Insights.
U.S. News surveyed 170 medical schools for our 2015 survey of research and primary care programs. Schools self-reported myriad data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News’ data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Medical Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News’ rankings of Best Colleges, Best Graduate Schools or Best Online Programs. The yield rate data above are correct as of Dec. 6, 2016.
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