MD Medical Schools in Illinois

8 MD Programs in Illinois

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (MD)

  Chicago, IL

  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, adjacent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital (consistently ranked top 10 nationally). The school offers an innovative integrated curriculum, strong research programs in oncology and neuroscience, and a commitment to training humanistic physicians. Its Chicago location provides access to a large, diverse metropolitan patient population.

  MCAT 521GPA 3.933.2% acceptance
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• Pritzker School of Medicine, UChicago (MD)

  Chicago, IL

  The Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago is a small, highly selective private medical school. It is known for intellectual rigor, research excellence, and a collaborative learning culture. It is affiliated with the University of Chicago Medicine, one of the leading academic medical centers on the city's South Side. Pritzker produces physicians committed to advancing both the science and the practice of medicine. Its Hyde Park campus puts students close to the university's exceptional graduate programs in biology, social sciences, and policy.

  MCAT 521GPA 3.912.8% acceptance
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• Carle Illinois College of Medicine (MD)

  Urbana-Champaign, IL

  Carle Illinois College of Medicine was established in 2015, and its first class enrolled in 2018. It is a public institution and a college within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It is also the first engineering-based medical school in the world, created through a partnership between the university and Carle Health. The curriculum builds engineering principles, computational thinking, and design methodology into the standard MD program. Graduates can design medical devices, analyse health data, and lead healthcare technology innovation. Every graduate receives the Health Innovation Professorship designation alongside the MD degree.

  MCAT 515GPA 3.802.5% acceptance
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• Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (MD)

  North Chicago, IL

  Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science sits in North Chicago, Illinois. It is a private MD-granting institution inside a health sciences university, and it emphasises interprofessional education across medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, and allied health. The school trains physicians on a strong clinical sciences foundation, and places particular value on teamwork, communication, and collaborative care. Clinical training is spread across the greater Chicago metro area, including Advocate Health and other North Shore Illinois health systems.

  MCAT 508GPA 3.692.5% acceptance
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• Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (MD)

  Maywood, IL

  Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine sits on the Loyola University Health Sciences campus in Maywood, Illinois. It is a private Jesuit Catholic medical school, and its mission is rooted in service, justice, and holistic patient care. Teaching follows the Jesuit principle of cura personalis, meaning care for the whole person. Clinical training runs through Loyola University Medical Center, one of the largest and busiest hospitals in the Chicago metro area. Stritch is known for its commitment to primary care, family medicine, and underserved community health.

  MCAT 512GPA 3.703.5% acceptance
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• Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center (MD)

  Chicago, IL

  Rush Medical College was founded in 1837, making it one of the oldest medical schools in the United States. It is a private institution inside Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago's Illinois Medical District. Students train in an urban academic medical center with exceptional clinical breadth, including top-ranked departments in orthopaedics, oncology, and cardiology. Rush has a strong research portfolio and a commitment to serving Chicago's diverse urban communities, which gives students rich exposure to the full range of urban health challenges.

  MCAT 510GPA 3.742.5% acceptance
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• Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (MD)

  Springfield, IL

  Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was founded in 1970. It is a public medical school headquartered in Springfield, Illinois. Its founding mission was to address physician shortages in rural and medically underserved communities across the state. It is well known for its SELECT MD program, a three-year accelerated track designed to produce primary care physicians for underserved Illinois communities. SIU Med graduates practise in Illinois at notably high rates, particularly in primary care and rural settings.

  MCAT 511GPA 3.706.6% acceptanceStrong in-state pref.
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• University of Illinois College of Medicine (MD)

  Chicago, IL

  The University of Illinois College of Medicine was founded in 1881. It is the largest medical school in the US by class size, and the flagship public medical school for Illinois. Campuses in Chicago, Peoria, and Rockford give students a distributed training model that spans urban academic medicine and community hospital care. The former Urbana-Champaign site is now the separate, independently accredited Carle Illinois College of Medicine. The Chicago campus works closely with UI Health, one of the largest safety-net hospital systems in the Midwest.

  MCAT 512GPA 3.732.7% acceptanceStrong in-state pref.
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