The 2025 class of medical students from the University of Missouri School of Medicine learned on Friday, March 21, where they will be training in their chosen specialties as resident physicians.
“Match Day” marks the occasion where medical students from across the country open the envelope that contains their residency match. This year’s class from the MU School of Medicine was highly sought after: 99% of the class received a residency program match. That exceeds both this year’s U.S. MD match rate of 94%, and the overall applicant match rate of 80%.
In the MU School of Medicine’s class of 2025, 31% will stay on the MU campus for their residency training, 46% will remain in Missouri and 32% selected residency programs in primary care fields.
In this year’s graduating class, 25 students were assigned to the Springfield Clinical Campus for their last two years. The Springfield campus was established in June 2016 in partnership with CoxHealth and Mercy health systems.
The National Resident Matching Program conducts an annual match process designed to optimize the choices of medical students and residency program directors. Students rank their residency program choices in order of preference, and program directors rank students. The data is put into a computer, and the best match for both is made. In the third week of March, results of the matches are announced.
In the 2025 Main Residency Match, more than 35,000 allopathic medical school graduates, and a total of 79,000 applicants, competed for approximately 43,000 residency positions in more than 6,600 residency training programs.
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