Which Medical Schools Are in New York?

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

The split is sharp. The four SUNY schools filled 77 to 91 percent of their seats with New Yorkers. Two private New York City schools went the other way: NYU Grossman's class was 93 percent out-of-state, and Columbia's was 83 percent.

CUNY has no MCAT^® average because MedEdits lists it as BS/MD only. Its 75 seats in 2023-24 all went to New Yorkers, and Table A-1 shows 75 applications for them, so you apply to it from high school, not after college. The BS/MD programs guide covers how those tracks work.

The MCAT^® averages differ a little by source. MedSchoolCoach lists NYU Grossman at 522 and Weill Cornell at 520, for example. For current medians, the source of record is the AAMC's MSAR, and the MSAR guide covers whether it's worth buying.

These are the New York locations on the AOA's list, with MedEdits' average MCAT^® where it has one:

• NYITCOM, Old Westbury. New York Institute of Technology's osteopathic college; average MCAT^® 506.
• Touro Harlem, New York City. Average MCAT^® 507 (MedEdits lists 506.75).
• Touro Middletown. Touro's second New York campus; average MCAT^® 503 (MedEdits lists 502.68).
• LECOM Elmira. A branch of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; average MCAT^® 503.
• D'Youville, Buffalo. The newest school in the state. Its first class of 97 students started on August 3, 2026, so it has no admissions history yet.

The MD vs DO guide covers how the two degrees compare in admissions and the residency match.

New York's 15 MD schools enrolled 2,014 first-year students in fall 2023, per Table A-1. The AAMC's Table A-4 counts 1,680 New York residents who started at an MD school anywhere that year, out of 3,521 who applied, per Table A-3.

New York imports more MD students than it exports

First-year MD students, 2023-24

By the in-state shares in Table A-1, about 1,115 of the 2,014 seats went to New Yorkers. That means about 66 percent of New Yorkers who started MD school stayed in the state, and about 900 seats went to students from elsewhere. California runs the opposite pattern: most of its matriculants leave, as the California medical schools breakdown shows.

Getting in is still hard. About 52 percent of New York's 3,521 applicants (1,841 people) didn't start at any MD school that year, by subtracting Table A-4's count from Table A-3's. Some of them started at DO schools, which these MD tables don't count.

Application volume shows where the pressure is. Albany Medical College received 13,258 applications for 143 seats, the most of any New York school, and New York Medical College received 10,562 for 220. NYU Long Island had the steepest ratio: 4,045 applications for 24 seats.

New York has three tuition-free MD programs:

• NYU Grossman. NYU's medical school announced in 2018 that it would cover tuition for all its students.
• NYU Grossman Long Island. A $200 million gift from Kenneth and Elaine Langone funds full-tuition scholarships for every student in good standing, and the program is three years long and built around primary care.
• Albert Einstein. In February 2024, a $1 billion gift from Ruth Gottesman, a former Einstein professor, made the school tuition-free for all students, CNBC reported.

Tuition-free doesn't mean free: you still pay for housing, fees and living costs. The med school scholarships guide covers the other ways to cut the bill.

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, the AOA's osteopathic school list and the AAMC's 2023-24 FACTS tables. School averages change every cycle, so check current numbers in the MSAR before you finalize a list.