Which Medical Schools Are in Michigan?

The in-state column is the share of each school's 2023-24 entering class who were Michigan residents, from the AAMC's Table A-1. The MCAT^® column is the school's average, as tallied by MedEdits.

Wayne State is the biggest by far, with 305 first-year students in 2023-24. It drew 8,049 applications, about 26 per seat, the lowest ratio in the state. Central Michigan drew 8,178 applications for 104 seats, about 79 per seat, the highest. Western Michigan is the smallest, with 84 seats, and it's the only Michigan MD school where most of the class came from out of state.

Michigan's own applicants apply widely at home. Table A-3 counts 1,888 Michigan applicants to MD schools in 2023-24, and Table A-1's in-state shares work out to about 1,594 in-state applications to Wayne State alone, or about 84 percent of the state's applicants. Each of the other five schools drew between about 1,133 and 1,552.

For current medians, the source of record is the AAMC's MSAR. The MSAR guide covers whether it's worth buying.

MSUCOM's entering class in fall 2025 had 289 students, and 68 percent were Michigan residents. MSU's facts page says 9,587 people applied for the class that started in 2026, and 71 percent of that class are Michigan residents. The college enrolls about 1,200 students across its three sites, with about 400 first- and second-year students in East Lansing and about 100 each at Detroit and Macomb.

MedEdits lists MSUCOM's average MCAT^® as 507, the same as MSU's MD school. The MD vs DO guide covers how the two degrees compare in admissions and the residency match.

The six MD schools enrolled 971 first-year students in 2023-24, per Table A-1. The AAMC's Table A-4 counts 842 Michigan residents who started at an MD school anywhere that year.

By those in-state shares, about 607 of the 971 seats went to Michigan residents. So about 72 percent of Michiganders who started MD school stayed in the state, about 235 left, and about 364 Michigan seats went to students from elsewhere. Georgia runs short on seats and sends students out, as the Georgia medical schools breakdown shows. Michigan has seats to spare and still trades students both ways, because Western Michigan, Michigan and Oakland Beaumont fill 45 to 61 percent of their classes from out of state.

Getting in is still hard. About 1,046 of the 1,888 Michigan applicants, or 55 percent, didn't start at an MD school in 2023-24. Some of them started at DO schools, which these tables don't count.

• MSU is merging its two medical colleges. President Kevin Guskiewicz announced the plan on March 11, 2026, and the Board of Trustees approved it on April 10, 2026. The College of Human Medicine and MSUCOM will become Michigan State University Medicine, which will still grant both the MD and the DO. Guskiewicz called keeping the separate LCME and osteopathic accreditations a "non-negotiable priority," and the provost said full unification would take about two years.

• Central Michigan's college has a new name and a future home in Saginaw. In November 2025, Covenant HealthCare and MyMichigan Health pledged $40 million each, the largest gifts in CMU's history, for a medical education building in Saginaw. The college is now the Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine at Central Michigan University. First- and second-year students study in Mount Pleasant for now, and most third- and fourth-year students already train in Saginaw. CMU said it planned to break ground in 2026.

MedEdits and Shemmassian Consulting disagree on tuition by more than $28,000 a year for the same school (the University of Michigan's out-of-state rate), so this page doesn't print a tuition column. Use each school's cost-of-attendance page or the MSAR before you compare costs.

To see how your score compares with the averages above, look it up in the PurpleCAT MCAT score guide.

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 MSU's and CMU's announcements. School averages change every cycle, so check current numbers in the MSAR before you finalize a list.