Which Medical Schools Are in Georgia?

The in-state column is the share of each school's 2023-24 entering class who were Georgia residents, from the AAMC's Table A-1. The MCAT^® column is the school-reported average, as tallied by MedEdits. UGA's row uses its own figures for its first class.

Emory's 139 seats drew 12,882 applications, about 93 per seat, and 60 percent of the class came from outside Georgia. Morehouse drew 6,992 applications for 110 seats, about 64 per seat.

MCG and Mercer are built for Georgians. The Medical College of Georgia enrolled 264 students in 2023-24, and Table A-1 shows 263 of them were state residents. Mercer goes further: all 1,351 of its applications came from Georgia residents, and it filled 170 seats from that pool. It teaches on campuses in Macon, Savannah and Columbus.

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These are the Georgia campuses on the AOA's list:

• PCOM Georgia, Suwanee. About 27 miles north of downtown Atlanta, and training DO students since 2005. MedEdits lists an average MCAT^® of 503.
• PCOM South Georgia, Moultrie. Established in 2019. Starting in 2025-26, PCOM added 35 seats to bring each class to 90 students, citing rural physician needs.

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The four established MD schools enrolled 683 first-year students in 2023-24, per Table A-1. The AAMC's Table A-4 counts 808 Georgia residents who started at an MD school anywhere that year.

Georgia sends MD students out of state

First-year MD students, 2023-24

By those in-state shares, about 563 of the 683 seats went to Georgians. That means about 70 percent of Georgians who started MD school stayed in the state, about 245 left, and about 120 Georgia seats went to students from elsewhere, most of them at Emory. New York runs the opposite pattern and imports about 900 students a year, as the New York medical schools breakdown shows.

Getting in anywhere is still hard. Table A-3 counts 1,825 Georgia applicants to MD schools in 2023-24, so about 1,017 of them, or 56 percent, didn't start at an MD school that year. Some of them started at DO schools, which these tables don't count.

The LCME granted UGA preliminary accreditation on February 13, 2026, two years after the Board of Regents approved it, in February 2024, as the state's second public medical school. The first class of 64 students started orientation in July 2026, and UGA reported these numbers for it:

• Applications: More than 2,000, in a two-week admissions cycle, with 235 applicants interviewed.
• Georgia residents: 95 percent of the class.
• Averages: A 514 MCAT^® and a 3.85 GPA.

Before UGA had its own school, MCG ran an Athens campus with UGA that enrolled 60 students per class, according to the AJC's report. If MCG's enrollment holds steady, 64 seats at 95 percent adds about 61 Georgians a year, roughly a quarter of the 245 who left in 2023-24. UGA points to the shortage it's meant to fill: Georgia ranks 39th in the country in active patient care physicians per capita and 41st in public medical students per capita.

MedEdits lists the Medical College of Georgia's tuition at $31,013 a year for residents and $59,371 for nonresidents. The private schools charge one rate, from $42,586 at Mercer to $51,136 at Emory. Since Mercer enrolled only Georgians in 2023-24 and MCG enrolled about 1 nonresident, the cheaper seats are mostly closed to applicants from other states.

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Last verified November 3, 2026, against the LCME's accredited program directory (updated November 2, 2026), the AOA's osteopathic school list, the AAMC's 2023-24 FACTS tables and UGA's announcements for its first class. School averages and tuition change every cycle, so check current numbers in the MSAR before you finalize a list.