Best Residency Programs 2027
Rankings for 4,700 residency programs in 26 specialties. Each program is judged on the hospitals where residents train, the depth of its faculty, its research and what residents earn against local rent, with no reputation survey. Pick a specialty, then filter by state, setting or visa sponsorship.
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- Anesthesiology183 programs
- Cleveland Clinic
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of California, San Francisco
- Child Neurology71 programs
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Dermatology133 programs
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Pennsylvania
- Mass General Brigham
- Diagnostic Radiology185 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Yale School of Medicine
- Emergency Medicine285 programs
- Yale School of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania
- NewYork-Presbyterian
- Family Medicine529 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Kansas School of Medicine
- Michigan Medicine
- General Surgery336 programs
- Cleveland Clinic
- Yale School of Medicine
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Internal Medicine550 programs
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Yale School of Medicine
- Internal Medicine-Pediatrics81 programs
- Yale School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Michigan Medicine
- Interventional Radiology94 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Neurological Surgery121 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- Neurology196 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology285 programs
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Duke University Health System (Duke Health)
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- Orthopaedic Surgery200 programs
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Hospital for Special Surgery
- Cleveland Clinic
- Otolaryngology122 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Pathology133 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Pediatrics197 programs
- Yale School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation104 programs
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Cleveland Clinic
- Michigan Medicine
- Plastic Surgery81 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale School of Medicine
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Preventive Medicine32 programs
- University of Utah Health
- University of Pennsylvania
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – New York
- Psychiatry276 programs
- University of Pennsylvania
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Radiation Oncology84 programs
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- University of Pennsylvania
- Thoracic Surgery34 programs
- Cleveland Clinic
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Transitional Year170 programs
- Indiana University Health
- UPMC / University of Pittsburgh
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Urology144 programs
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania
- Vascular Surgery74 programs
- Cleveland Clinic
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- University of Pennsylvania
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Questions
How are residency programs ranked here?
Each program is judged on the hospitals where its residents train, the depth of its faculty, its research and what residents earn against local rent. Programs with too little information are listed without a number.
Do these rankings use reputation surveys?
No. No part of a program's rank comes from a survey of doctors or program directors.
How often are the rankings updated?
We refresh them through the year as programs and hospitals publish new information. Each page shows the date of its last update.
Which specialties are covered?
Every specialty that applies through ERAS, plus emergency medicine and obstetrics and gynecology, which now apply through their own service. Transitional year programs are listed too.
What does 2MM+ add?
Custom weights, a program list with a preference signal planner, saved filters, side-by-side comparison of up to 8 programs, Excel downloads and interview prep for every program.
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