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 neighbourhood of Chicago, adjacent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital (consistently ranked top 10 nationally). The school offers an innovative integrated curriculum, strong research programmes in oncology and neuroscience, and a commitment to training humanistic physicians. Its Chicago location provides access to a large, diverse metropolitan patient population.

  MCAT 520GPA 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 known for intellectual rigour, research excellence, and a collaborative learning culture. Affiliated with the University of Chicago Medicine, one of the leading academic medical centres on the US South Side, Pritzker produces physicians committed to advancing the science and practice of medicine. The Hyde Park campus location gives students proximity to University of Chicago's exceptional graduate programmes across 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, established in 2015 (with its inaugural class enrolling in 2018), is a public institution — a college within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — and the first engineering-based medical school in the world, created through a partnership between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carle Health. The curriculum embeds engineering principles, computational thinking, and design methodology into the standard MD programme, producing physicians who can design medical devices, analyse health data, and lead healthcare technology innovation. All graduates receive the Health Innovation Professorship designation alongside their 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, located in North Chicago, Illinois, is a private MD-granting institution within a health sciences university that emphasises interprofessional education across medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, and allied health fields. The school trains physicians with a strong clinical sciences foundation and places particular value on teamwork, communication, and collaborative care. Clinical training is distributed across the greater Chicago metropolitan area, including affiliation with 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, located on the Loyola University Health Sciences campus in Maywood, Illinois, is a private Jesuit Catholic medical school with a distinctive mission rooted in service, justice, and holistic patient care. The school trains physicians through the Jesuit principle of cura personalis — care for the whole person — and has strong clinical training through Loyola University Medical Center, one of the largest and busiest hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan 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, founded in 1837 and one of the oldest medical schools in the United States, is a private institution located within Rush University Medical Center in Chicago's Illinois Medical District. The college trains physicians in an urban academic medical centre environment 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, providing students with rich exposure to the full spectrum 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, founded in 1970, is a public medical school headquartered in Springfield, Illinois with a founding mission to address physician shortages in rural and medically underserved communities across the state. The school is well known for its SELECT MD programme — a three-year accelerated track designed to produce primary care physicians for underserved Illinois communities. SIU Med graduates have a notably high rate of practice in Illinois, 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, founded in 1881, is the largest medical school in the US by class size and a flagship public medical training institution for the state of Illinois. With campuses in Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, and Urbana-Champaign, UIC Med provides a uniquely distributed clinical training model that exposes students to urban academic medicine, community hospital care, and rural practice settings. The Chicago campus is closely affiliated with UI Health (University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System), one of the largest safety-net hospital systems in the Midwest.

  MCAT 512GPA 3.732.7% acceptanceStrong in-state pref.
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