U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the most diverse medical schools in the U.S. for 2024 and 2025, with Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta earning the top ranking.
Each medical school's ranking is based on the percentage of each school's fall 2023 total enrollment that is underrepresented minority students and how that percentage compares with state and national race-ethnic-group proportions.
Read more about the methodology here.
The U.S.' top 25 most diverse medical schools (Note: This list includes ties):
1. Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta)
2. Meharry Medical College (Nashville)
3. Howard University (Washington, D.C.)
4. (tie) University of California Davis
4. (tie) University of Vermont (Burlington)
6. Florida International University (Miami)
7. (tie) University of California Riverside
7. (tie) University of New Mexico (Albuquerque)
9. Nova Southeastern University Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
10. Temple University (Philadelphia)
11. University of California San Francisco
12. University of California Los Angeles
13. (tie) East Carolina University (Greenville, N.C.)
13. (tie) University of Miami
15. (tie) Emory University (Atlanta)
15. (tie) Ohio State University (Columbus)
15. (tie) University of Arizona (Tucson)
15. (tie) University of Illinois (Chicago)
19. (tie) Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
19. (tie) University of Wisconsin-Madison
21. (tie) University of California Irvine
21. (tie) University of Louisville (Ky.)
23. Northeast Ohio Medical University (Rootstown)
24. (tie) Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Rochester, Minn.)
24. (tie) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
24. (tie) Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.)
24. (tie) Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)