DO Osteopathic Medical Schools in Florida
6 osteopathic DO programs in our catalogue for Florida. Compare MCAT/GPA profiles, AACOMAS strategy, and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) emphasis.
About Florida: Pop. ~22.6M; Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville each host major medical training centres. One of the most competitive in-state applicant pools due to Florida's large population and the University of Florida, USF, and FIU programs.
In-state context: Florida's public schools (UF, USF, UCF, FIU, FAU) strongly favour Florida residents; in-state seats typically 80–95% of intake. Nova Southeastern (DO) admits broadly from Florida and the Southeast. Out-of-state applicants to Florida public programs face very limited availability.
Major health systems
- HCA Healthcare (FL region)
- AdventHealth
- Tampa General Hospital
- Jackson Health System
- UF Health
- Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville)
MD vs DO in Florida
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6 DO Programs in Florida
- Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine — Florida (DO)
Melbourne, FL
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine Florida is the Florida campus of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. It sits in Melbourne, Florida, on the Space Coast in Brevard County. The campus is collocated with the Florida Institute of Technology under a BCOM-Florida Tech affiliation agreement, and is housed in Florida Tech's L3Harris Commons. BCOM governs and operates the medical school. It extends Burrell's mission of training osteopathic physicians for medically underserved communities into Central Florida. That region has significant rural and underinsured populations inland from the Space Coast. Its first class of 100 students matriculated in July 2024. The campus draws on Florida's growing healthcare infrastructure and Orlando-area clinical affiliates.
MCAT 503GPA 3.506.0% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS - LECOM Bradenton (DO)
Bradenton, FL
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) Bradenton is one of LECOM's five campuses. The others are Erie and Greensburg in Pennsylvania, Elmira in New York, and Jacksonville in Florida. It is one of two LECOM campuses in Florida. It sits on Florida's Gulf Coast in Bradenton, serving the state's large and growing population. Its particular focus is geriatric care, tropical medicine, and diverse community health. LECOM offers several curriculum tracks: traditional lecture-based, Problem-Based Learning (PBL), and independent study.
MCAT 505GPA 3.715.2% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS - LECOM at Jacksonville University (DO)
Jacksonville, FL
LECOM at Jacksonville University is a forthcoming Florida campus of the LECOM system. It is being developed with Jacksonville University, in JU's Medical Mall on the Arlington campus. Announced in November 2022, the project broke ground in March 2025. It is scheduled to enroll its inaugural Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine class in fall 2026, the first medical school in the city of Jacksonville. The campus is not yet operational; planned figures below are projections, as no class has matriculated. Once open it will leverage LECOM's established curriculum and Jacksonville's extensive hospital and community health system.
MCAT 505GPA 3.526.5% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS - LMU-DCOM Florida (DO)
Orange Park, FL
LMU-DCOM Orange Park is a forthcoming third location of Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. It will sit in Orange Park, a suburb of Jacksonville in Northeast Florida. It was announced in February 2024, and the COCA approved it to recruit in December 2024. Its first class is scheduled to matriculate in fall 2026, so the campus is not yet operational. It will extend LMU-DCOM's mission of training osteopathic physicians for underserved communities into Florida, with access to Jacksonville's large healthcare ecosystem.
MCAT 504GPA 3.536.2% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS - NSU-COM (DO)
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM), founded in 1981, is one of the largest and most established private osteopathic medical schools in the United States. NSU-COM sits on NSU's Fort Lauderdale (Davie) campus in South Florida. It benefits from NSU's comprehensive health sciences infrastructure: schools of pharmacy, dental medicine, nursing, optometry, and public health. The school trains physicians for South Florida's exceptionally diverse patient population.
MCAT 506GPA 3.584.8% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS - Orlando COM (DO)
Winter Garden, FL
Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine (Orlando COM) is one of the newest osteopathic medical schools in the United States. Its first class opened in August 2024 in Winter Garden, Florida, in the Horizon West area of Orange County, inside the greater Orlando healthcare corridor. The school was set up to address Florida's growing physician shortage and Central Florida's rapid population growth. It is an independent private institution with a strong community health mission, and it has built clinical partnerships with Orlando-area health systems.
MCAT 504GPA 3.528.0% acceptanceDO · AACOMAS
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