Johns Hopkins Medical Class of 2026 Achieves 100 Percent Match Rate on Match Day

Every one of the 113 graduating medical students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine learned Thursday that they had secured a residency placement, giving the Class of 2026 a 100 percent match rate on one of medicine's most anticipated days of the year.

Family members, friends, faculty, and staff packed the second-floor atrium of the Armstrong Medical Education Building to watch students tear open envelopes revealing where they had been paired among 6,626 programs coordinated by the National Resident Matching Program. The mood, by all accounts, was festive. Hopkins held its Match Day events on March 20, a day before the National Resident Matching Program's wider celebration, when more than 47,000 medical students worldwide learned their placements.

Thirty-six JHU students, representing 32 percent of the graduating class, will remain at Hopkins for their residency training. The rest will scatter to programs across the country, with internal medicine drawing the largest share of Hopkins graduates at 18 students. Anesthesiology claimed 9 students, while general surgery and OB/GYN each matched 8.

Among the moments captured at the event, one student held up a handwritten sign declaring: "I matched! Specialty: Interventional Rads at Program: Hopkins." The image, photographed by Will Kirk of Johns Hopkins University, distilled the day's emotional stakes into a single sheet of paper.

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Match Day celebration page includes student profiles and additional coverage from this year's event.