Facts & Stats

Education By the Numbers

COM Total Enrollment - 785 
(includes M.D.,  M.D./Ph.D., and MPH candidates)

Fall 2024 Incoming Medical Degree Class Statistics

Number of Applicants - 3680
First-year Students Enrolled in M.D. Program - 186
M.D. / Ph.D. Students - 3
Mean GPA - 3.86
Average MCAT - 511
Undergraduate Colleges Represented - 52
In-State (MD only) - 93%
Out-of-State (MD only) - 7%
S.C. Counties Represented - 19
Other States Represented - 6
Male -  39 percent
Female - 61 percent

COM First-Year Medical Student Expenses 2024 to 2025

Tuition and Fees - $37,500 (In-state), $66,849 (Out-of-state)
Health insurance - $3,205 (estimated)
Books/required expenses - $2,251

Link to MUSC Tuition & Fees

Class of 2025 Residency Match Results

The MUSC College of Medicine had a successful residency match on March 21, 2025. Following SOAP, 98.8% of the 175 graduating students of the Class of 2025 secured a residency position.

Of the specialties in which students will be pursuing their training, Categorical Internal Medicine led the way with the highest number of students at 22 (12.7% of the graduating class). Other popular specialties included Surgery (10.3%), Anesthesia (9.1%), Family Medicine (9.1%), Pediatrics (8.6%), Psychiatry (5.7%), Obstetrics and Gynecology (5.1%) and Emergency Medicine (4.6%).

A total of 59 (34.0%) students will remain in South Carolina to complete their residency training, with 45 (26.0%) of these students staying here at MUSC. Thirty-nine percent of the class will be entering primary care (including Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Medicine-Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology).

Students also matched to programs in other competitive subspecialties: Neurology (7), Orthopedic Surgery (7), Diagnostic Radiology (7), Ophthalmology (4), Otolaryngology (4), Plastic Surgery (3), Interventional Radiology (2), Pathology (2), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2), Neurosurgery (1), Vascular Surgery (1), and Urology (1). The Class of 2025 also includes one student who will enter military service, beginning their residency at Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia.

In addition to the significant number of students choosing to stay in South Carolina, we are proud to see many students match at highly competitive programs across the country. These include the Massachusetts General Brigham, Stanford, the Mayo Clinic, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Duke, Yale, UAB, UVA, UNC, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, among others.