2026 School of Medicine Columbia Match Results

On Friday, March 20, graduating medical students at the School of Medicine Columbia, and at medical schools across the country, celebrated as they learned where they matched for their residency appointment, signifying the next step in their career in medicine. The big reveal occurs at noon ET each year on the third Friday in March. Following the reveal, 95 percent of the SOMC Class of 2026 matched with a residency program.

The Match Process

The Match process is part of a larger transition in medical education. Students apply to, and interview with a number of residency programs during their fourth year of medical school. The National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) provides the mechanism through the Registration, Ranking and Results System for applicants and programs to then enter rank order lists of their preferences. The NRMP uses a mathematical algorithm to match applicants and programs to their most preferred ranked choices.

The School of Medicine Columbia Reveal

Medical students at the School of Medicine Columbia participated in an interactive and fun reveal event, which was held at the Columbia Museum of Art’s Boyd Plaza in the heart of downtown Columbia. It was a gorgeous afternoon in the Capital City to celebrate the Class of 2026. Upon arrival, students located a book adorned with their name and the School of Medicine logo on a bookshelf, before finding their dedicated space at a beautifully decorated table on the Plaza. Surrounded by family, friends, colleagues, faculty and staff supporters, at Noon the students opened their book to find their Match Day envelope, and learned their residency match.

South Carolina Impact

Thirty students (30.9%) will stay in the state of South Carolina for their residency appointments. Those students will begin their careers at Prisma Midlands, Lexington Medical Center, MUSC, Prisma Greenville, Self, Grand Strand, McLeod and Spartanburg.

By The Numbers

Forty-three School of Medicine Columbia students matched into a primary care (44.3%) residency program, including 23 students in internal medicine, nine in pediatrics and 11 in family medicine. Additionally, eight students matched into emergency medicine, six into anesthesiology, six into general surgery and three into orthopaedic surgery. Overall, SOMC students will begin their residencies across the country in 19 states.