Welcome to California best medical schools. Our rankings are based on alumni reviews, research scores received, peer institution assessment and admissions statistics including averaged MCAT scores, undergraduate GPA as well as acceptance rates. Below we list top medical schools in California that are top ranked nationally. You can find tuition cost, total enrollment and composite MCAT score for each school.
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| National Ranking | Best Medical Programs |
| 4 | Stanford University (Stanford, CA) Acceptance rate: 3.0% MCAT composite score: 11.6 Tuition: Full-time: $45,744 Average undergraduate GPA: 3.77 Total medical school enrollment: 449 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 1.9:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $329.7
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| 5 | University of California Acceptance rate: 4.1% MCAT composite score: 11.4 Tuition: Full-time: $29,856 (in-state), Full-time: $42,101 (out-of-state) Average undergraduate GPA: 3.79 Total medical school enrollment: 634 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 3.1:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $539.6  |
| 13 | University of California Acceptance rate: 3.9% MCAT composite score: 11.6 Tuition: Full-time: $32,781 (in-state), Full-time: $45,026 (out-of-state) Average undergraduate GPA: 3.80 Total medical school enrollment: 752 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 3.4:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $552.1
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| 17 | University of California Acceptance rate: 5.2% MCAT composite score: 11.2 Tuition: Full-time: $0 (in-state), Full-time: $12,245 (out-of-state) Average undergraduate GPA: 3.69 Total medical school enrollment: 511 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 2.4:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $307.4  |
| 34 | University of Southern California (Keck) (Los Angeles, CA) Acceptance rate: 5.0% MCAT composite score: 11.0 Tuition: Full-time: $48,452 Average undergraduate GPA: 3.64 Total medical school enrollment: 702 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 2.0:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $165.0
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| 42 | University of California Acceptance rate: 4.5% MCAT composite score: 10.3 Tuition: Full-time: $0 (in-state), Full-time: $12,245 (out-of-state) Average undergraduate GPA: 3.61 Total medical school enrollment: 405 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 1.7:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $137.8  |
| 45 | University of California Acceptance rate: 5.1% MCAT composite score: 10.5 Tuition: Full-time: $29,856 (in-state), Full-time: $42,101 (out-of-state) Average undergraduate GPA: 3.71 Total medical school enrollment: 437 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 1.9:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $150.2  |
| 105 | Touro University California (Vallejo, CA) Acceptance rate: 6.0% MCAT composite score: 9.6 Tuition: Full-time: $43,090 Average undergraduate GPA: 3.45 Total medical school enrollment: 546 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 0.1:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions):
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| 113 | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, CA) Acceptance rate: 27.2% MCAT composite score: 9.2 Tuition: Full-time: $47,515 Average undergraduate GPA: 3.53 Total medical school enrollment: 986 Full-time faculty-student ratio: 0.1:1 NIH funds granted to medical school and affiliated hospitals (in millions): $1.7
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California population
California ranks first in the number of residents among the states of the United States, more than 37,250,000 people live here. If California were a separate state, it would rank thirty-fourth in the world in terms of population. More than 9,800,000 people live in Los Angeles County alone, the most populous of all US counties (there are forty-two states with smaller populations in the US). The average population density in California is about 91 people per km 2 (11th place in the USA).
The largest cities in California are Los Angeles (more than 3,850,000 residents, second place in the list of the largest cities in the USA), San Diego (more than 1,310,000 residents, 8th place), San Jose (more than 950,000 residents, 10th place), San Francisco (more than 850,000 residents, 14th place), Fresno (about 500,000 residents, 34th place). About 470,000 people live in the state capital, Sacramento.
The largest metropolitan areas (urban agglomerations) of California were formed around Los Angeles (about 12,850,000 people, second place in the USA after New York), San Francisco (about 4,600,000 people, eleventh place in the USA), Riverside (about 4 230,000 people, thirteenth in the US), San Diego (about 3,100,000 people, seventeenth in the US) and Sacramento (about 2,250,000 people, twenty-fourth in the US).
Although there are no official statistics, it is believed that more than two million illegal immigrants live in California (about 7% of the state’s population).
The racial composition of the population of California:
- White – 57.6%
- Asians – 13%
- Blacks (African Americans) – 6.2%
- Native Americans (Indians or Eskimos of Alaska) – about 1%
- Native Hawaiian or Oceanian – 0.4%
- Other races – 17%
- Two or more races – 4.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (of any race) – 37.6%
California is one of four (along with Hawaii, New Mexico, and Texas) U.S. states that have “minorities make up the majority”. This means that less than half of the state’s white and non-Hispanic residents (about 42% to be exact).
Approximately 43% of Californians have a native language other than English. The second most spoken (after English) language in the state is Spanish, spoken by about 30% of the state’s population. Spanish is especially popular in Southern California, in the Los Angeles area and in Imperial County, where Hispanics make up to 75% of the population.
The largest ethnic (national) groups in the population of California:
- Mexicans – about 25%
- Germans – about 9%
- Irish – about 8%
- English – about 7.5%
The ethnic composition of California is extremely diverse, and although the population of the state is dominated by immigrants from Latin America (the Mexican community of Los Angeles is the largest in the United States) and northern European countries (as well as the general population of the United States), you can meet many people in the state other nationalities. More than a million descendants of immigrants from the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish and Portuguese), about six hundred thousand Armenians, more than half a million Iranians, many Arabs, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Greeks, Koreans, immigrants from the Balkans and Scandinavian countries live in California.
California has more North American Indigenous people than any other state in the United States, with over one hundred and ten thousand Cherokee Indians in California alone.
The largest population groups in the state of California by religion:
- Christians – about 66%, including:
- Protestants – about 33%, including:
- Baptists – about 4%
- Presbyterians – about 3%
- Methodists – about 2%
- Catholics – about 31%
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) – about 2%
- Protestants – about 33%, including:
- Jews – more than 2%
- Muslims – about 1%
- Other religions – about 4%
- Atheists – about 21%
California has more Catholics (mostly of Hispanic, Irish, or Italian ancestry) and Muslims than any other state in the United States, as well as the most adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outside of the traditionally “Mormon” state of Utah. The state has a large (nearly one million people, second largest in the US after New York State) Jewish community. Among the many residents of California of Asian origin, there are many supporters of Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Taoism and other “eastern” religions.