Per NRMP data, for the 2024 Match, 5,864 non-citizen IMGs matched into a US residency.
That’s about 58% of foreign educated non-citizen residency candidates who submitted a rank list. (Not all candidates will submit a rank list because not all of them get residency interviews.)
The linked list above will show which specialties non-citizen IMGs typically match into.
Also, realize there is NO financial aid for medical school for international students.
Internationals are required to deposit 2 years of tuition & fees into an escrow account at US bank before they will be allowed to matriculate. (Some medical school require addition years of tuition–up to all 4, some also require living expenses be deposited in advanced since med students are not allowed to work during med school.) You will need a minimum of $300,000 (and as much as $600,000) to attend a US medical school.
If you really want to be a physician, it’s a more efficient path to study medicine in your home country since in most parts of the world, medicine is a 6 year long program with direct admission from high school. The US requires a completed baccalaureate degree before students are allowed to apply for medicine. The US path is 8 years long.
It is Europe. OP cannot be that far from a testing center. Oh, now I see that OP is reluctant to travel to take a test. Well, as long as they understand the implications of applying intl without a test score.
Thanks for the info! I’m not sure about med school, I just wanted to know if I have chances of getting into these types of uni’s. Med school is a long time away, and it is a very high chance that I will not go.
Med school cost a lot of money. Many students in the US (including my DD in premed program) find the cheapest suitable option. That usually means either local school for about 22k, or some private (not the top ones) with merit scholarship with similar price tag (DD’s case). Even people with money try not to spend over 50k per year for college unless it is the very top school. This is because you can reach very similar outcome from many schools. You do not necessarily need Harvard or Stanford. That is why I suggested to consider great European colleges for the fraction of a cost.
If you’re not sure you want to study medicine, then attending a US college can be a good choice since you can always return after studying science&focusing on research, if you decide it’s not your thing, then return to Europe to join a medical school (there’s even an Irish university that has a special program for US educated students) or midwifery etc.
Read the Results Threads for each university listed on this thread carefully. Look for international students’threads, too.
Really? I thought that in most countries of the world, you start a very tough to get into 6 yr program right out of high school, and are graduated with an MD. I would imagine that for most Europeans, if you don’t get into these programs, there are very few other options for medical school.
It depends - but AFAIK there is no age limit for national programs and American-educated students are quite welcome in the the “graduate entry” programs like Poznan or Royal college of Surgeons.