Neurology
Localizing lesions by examination and then managing chronic disease — stroke, epilepsy, and neurodegeneration — across inpatient and clinic settings.
- Training
- 3–4 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ERAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 204
Neurology is accredited at more than one length: both 3-year and 4-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty.
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Neurology apart most is states and territories: 47, more than 25 of 31.
Every rail is one dot per specialty, ordered lowest to highest, so all six read as one profile. Dots stack where specialties share a value. Neurology’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
- Programs
- Programs: 204. More than 22 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 8. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- Training length
- Neurology is accredited at more than one length: both 3-year and 4-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty. Training length: 4 years. Longer than 13 of the 31 specialties reporting; shorter than 9. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: 3.3×. More than 14 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 9. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 4,841. More than 19 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 10. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 47. More than 25 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 5. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- First-year resident pay
- First-year resident pay: $67K. Higher than 7 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 20. Reported range across specialties: $60K to $73K.
Programs ranges from 5 to 820 across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 82 and 210.
Training length ranges from 2 years to 7 years across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 3 years and 5 years.
Interviews per position ranges from 1.0× to 5.0× across 28 specialties. The middle half sit between 2.7× and 3.5×.
Residents in training ranges from 99 to 40,131 across 30 specialties. The middle half sit between 718 and 6,616.
States and territories ranges from 4 to 52 across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 35 and 46.
First-year resident pay ranges from $60K to $73K across 28 specialties. The middle half sit between $67K and $69K.
Every accredited program
Grouped by state, alphabetical within each. We don’t rank programs. Open any row for its deadlines, salary, visas, and reported outcomes.
204 across 47 states
Alabama2
Arizona5
Arkansas2
California19
Colorado2
Connecticut2
District of Columbia3
Florida18
Georgia3
Hawaii1
Illinois8
Indiana1
Iowa1
Kansas1
Kentucky2
Louisiana4
Maine1
Maryland4
Massachusetts5
Michigan9
Minnesota3
Mississippi1
Missouri4
Nebraska2
Nevada2
New Hampshire1
New Jersey6
New Mexico1
New York19
North Carolina5
North Dakota1
Ohio9
Oklahoma2
Oregon1
Pennsylvania13
Puerto Rico1
Rhode Island1
South Carolina3
South Dakota1
Tennessee5
Texas16
Utah1
Vermont1
Virginia5
Washington2
West Virginia3
Wisconsin2
What the sources report
Published by the bodies that collect them. Each figure carries the year it describes, which is not always the year it was published.
Most recent reported
- Neurology program signals available per applicantApplicants to participating Neurology residency programs in the 2027 MyERAS season
- 8signalsAAMC, 2027 ERAS season
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official ACGME Neurology roster
- 204programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Advanced Neurology tracksNeurology advanced tracks
- 47tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Categorical Neurology tracksNeurology categorical tracks
- 177tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countNeurology tracks linked to the current ACGME roster
- 262tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Physician-reserved Neurology tracksNeurology physician-reserved tracks
- 38tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Average ranked applicants needed per Neurology PGY-1 positionNeurology PGY-1 programs that filled all positions
- 5.2ranked applicants per positionNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Average ranked applicants needed per Neurology PGY-2 positionNeurology PGY-2 programs that filled all positions
- 5.7ranked applicants per positionNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Neurology PGY-1 positions filledNeurology PGY-1 tracks in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 999positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Neurology PGY-1 positions offeredNeurology PGY-1 tracks in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 1,003positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Neurology PGY-2 advanced positions offeredNeurology PGY-2 advanced tracks in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 233positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Neurology physician-reserved positions offeredNeurology physician-reserved tracks in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 24positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Neurology first-time ABPN examination pass rateFirst-time Neurology ABPN examination takers in 2025 (803 passed of 994)
- 81%abpn.org, 2025
- Mean USMLE Step 2 CK score of U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Neurology specialtyU.S. MD seniors who consented to research use and matched to their preferred Neurology specialty
- 250USMLE Step 2 CK pointsNRMP, 2024 Main Residency Match
- Mean USMLE Step 2 CK score of U.S. MD seniors unmatched to preferred Neurology specialtyU.S. MD seniors who consented to research use and did not match to their preferred Neurology specialty
- 236USMLE Step 2 CK pointsNRMP, 2024 Main Residency Match
- Neurology five-year first-time ABPN examination pass rateFirst-time Neurology ABPN examination takers during 2021-2025 (3838 passed of 4616)
- 83%abpn.org, 2021-2025
Specialties that measure like this one
Nearest on the six measures above — length, competitiveness, scale, geography, pay. Not a claim that the work is similar, and not a recommendation.
- Diagnostic RadiologyReading the imaging the rest of the hospital orders, with little direct patient contact and a workload measured in studies rather than beds.
- Obstetrics & GynecologySurgical and primary care for one population, combining continuity clinic, operative gynecology, and the unpredictability of labor and delivery.
- PsychiatryDiagnosis and treatment of mental illness through pharmacology and psychotherapy, weighted toward outpatient practice after training.
- AnesthesiologyPhysiology in real time: airway, hemodynamics, and analgesia managed minute to minute, almost entirely in the operating room and on procedural floors.
How each measure is made
- Training length
- How many years the accredited residency itself runs. Specialties you enter at PGY-2 need a separately matched preliminary or transitional year before this clock starts, and any fellowship comes after it.Accredited length across programs in this specialty. A few specialties run both lengths — Emergency Medicine has three-year and four-year programs — and are shown as a range.
- Residents in training
- How many residents the specialty holds at once, counting every training year at every program. It is a measure of the field’s size rather than of its annual intake — divide by the training length for a rough sense of how many start each year.Total approved positions across all training years, summed across programs.
- Programs
- How many separately accredited residency programs the specialty has. Each one is its own application, its own interview, and its own line on your rank list.Accredited programs currently published in our directory.
- States and territories
- How many states and territories have at least one program. This is the geography question: a specialty with 400 programs across 20 states is far more concentrated than one with 100 spread across 45.Distinct states with at least one published program.
- First-year resident pay
- What you are paid during your first year of training, before any of it becomes an attending salary. The spread across specialties is narrow — this is not the number that separates them.Median PGY-1 stipend across programs — what you are paid during residency, not what the specialty earns afterwards.
- Interviews per position
- How many applicants a program interviews for each position it offers — at 4×, a program with ten spots interviews about forty people. It is a read on how far the field narrows at the interview stage, not on how many applied.Median interviews a program conducts for each position it offers.