Radiation Oncology Residency Programs

There are 86 ACGME-accredited Radiation Oncology residency programs across 37 states and territories. Together they offer about 186 first-year positions in each Match. The most programs are in New York (12), California (11) and Pennsylvania (5).

Program data updated October 11, 2026.

Programs: 86; In 37 states
First-year positions: 186; Across all programs
Median IMG residents: 7%; 22 programs at 25% or more
Sponsor a visa: 86%; J-1 or H-1B
Median interview rate: 29.4%; Of applicants

All Radiation Oncology programs

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25%+ IMG residents

Showing 86 of 86 Radiation Oncology programs

					Visa
Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) ProgramPittsburgh	Pennsylvania		0%		J-1 and H-1B
Baylor College of Medicine ProgramHouston	Texas	2	12.5%	27.2%	J-1
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center ProgramCleveland	Ohio	1	42.9%	32.3%	J-1 and H-1B
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ProgramLos Angeles	California	1	25%	21.9%	J-1 and H-1B
City of Hope National Medical Center ProgramDuarte	California	2	0%		J-1
Cleveland Clinic Foundation ProgramCleveland	Ohio	3	18%	28%	J-1
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital ProgramRoyal Oak	Michigan	3	50%		J-1
Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital ProgramLebanon	New Hampshire	1	33.3%	39.8%	J-1 and H-1B
Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University ProgramDetroit	Michigan	1	0%		J-1
Duke University Hospital ProgramDurham	North Carolina	2	0%	24.9%	None
Emory University School of Medicine ProgramAtlanta	Georgia	3	7%	40%	J-1 and H-1B
Henry Ford Health/Henry Ford Hospital ProgramDetroit	Michigan	2	33.3%	39.5%	None
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ProgramNew York	New York	3	0%	10.6%	J-1 and H-1B
Indiana University School of Medicine ProgramIndianapolis	Indiana	1	28.6%	27.6%	J-1 and H-1B
Johns Hopkins University ProgramBaltimore	Maryland	4	0%		J-1 and H-1B
Kaiser Permanente Southern California (Los Angeles) ProgramLos Angeles	California	2	0%	38.9%	None
Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium ProgramLoma Linda	California	1	14.3%		J-1
Loyola University Medical Center ProgramMaywood	Illinois	2	50%	27.1%	J-1
Maimonides Medical Center/SUNY Downstate HSU ProgramBrooklyn	New York	1	0%	34.5%	J-1 and H-1B
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School ProgramBoston	Massachusetts	7	4%		J-1 and H-1B
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Jacksonville) ProgramJacksonville	Florida	1	25%	35%	J-1 and H-1B
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Phoenix) ProgramPhoenix	Arizona	1	25%	25.2%	J-1
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) ProgramRochester	Minnesota	3	16%	26.9%	J-1 and H-1B
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University ProgramChicago	Illinois	1	25%		None
Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals ProgramMilwaukee	Wisconsin	2	25%		J-1
Medical University of South Carolina ProgramCharleston	South Carolina	1	16.7%	27.3%	J-1
MedStar Health Georgetown University ProgramWashington	District of Columbia	1	0%	29.2%	J-1
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ProgramNew York	New York	6	4%	20.2%	J-1
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine ProgramBronx	New York	2	9.5%	31.5%	J-1 and H-1B
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) ProgramNew York	New York	2	0%	34.9%	J-1
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital ProgramBrooklyn	New York	1	66.7%		None
NYU Grossman School of Medicine ProgramNew York	New York	3	0%	26.5%	J-1
Ohio State University Hospital ProgramColumbus	Ohio	2	36%	34.5%	J-1
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU Health) ProgramPortland	Oregon	2	0%	25%	None
Rush University Medical Center ProgramChicago	Illinois	1	33.3%	37.4%	J-1
Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School ProgramNew Brunswick	New Jersey	3	36.6%	30.9%	J-1
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH ProgramPhiladelphia	Pennsylvania	2	11.1%	28.3%	None
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University ProgramStanford	California	4	18%		J-1
Stony Brook Medicine ProgramStony Brook	New York	1	25%	47.4%	J-1
SUNY Upstate Medical University ProgramSyracuse	New York	2	0%	29.1%	J-1
Temple University Hospital/Fox Chase Cancer Center ProgramPhiladelphia	Pennsylvania	2	10%	33.5%	J-1 and H-1B
Tufts Medical Center ProgramBoston	Massachusetts	2	0%		None
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center ProgramLos Angeles	California	3	16%	29.4%	J-1 and H-1B
University at Buffalo ProgramBuffalo	New York		50%		J-1
University of Alabama Hospital (Birmingham) ProgramBirmingham	Alabama	2	9%	31.5%	J-1
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson ProgramTucson	Arizona	1	0%	44%	J-1
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine ProgramLittle Rock	Arkansas				J-1 and H-1B
University of California (Irvine) ProgramOrange	California	2	0%	44.6%	None
University of California (San Diego) Medical Center ProgramSan Diego	California	3	0%	23.4%	None
University of California (San Francisco) ProgramSan Francisco	California	4	0%		J-1 and H-1B
University of California Davis Health ProgramSacramento	California	2	14.3%	45%	J-1
University of Chicago/University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago ProgramChicago	Illinois	3	0%	35.9%	J-1
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine ProgramCincinnati	Ohio	2	0%		J-1
University of Colorado ProgramAurora	Colorado	2	0%	29.3%	J-1 and H-1B
University of Florida ProgramGainesville	Florida	2	0%		J-1
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center ProgramIowa City	Iowa	2	42.9%	44.4%	J-1 and H-1B
University of Kansas School of Medicine ProgramKansas City	Kansas	2	50%	41.5%	J-1 and H-1B
University of Kentucky College of Medicine ProgramLexington	Kentucky	1	11.1%	24.8%	J-1 and H-1B
University of Louisville School of Medicine ProgramLouisville	Kentucky	2	16.7%		J-1
University of Maryland ProgramBaltimore	Maryland	3	17%	27.3%	J-1
University of Miami/Jackson Health System ProgramMiami	Florida	3	50%		J-1 and H-1B
University of Michigan ProgramAnn Arbor	Michigan	3	0%	33.5%	J-1
University of Minnesota ProgramMinneapolis	Minnesota	1	0%	43.2%	J-1
University of Mississippi Medical Center ProgramJackson	Mississippi	2	0%	36.1%	J-1
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine ProgramOmaha	Nebraska	1	0%	41.8%	J-1 and H-1B
University of North Carolina Hospitals ProgramChapel Hill	North Carolina	2	0%	23.5%	J-1
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center ProgramOklahoma City	Oklahoma	2	0%		J-1
University of Pennsylvania Health System ProgramPhiladelphia	Pennsylvania	5	0%	19.1%	J-1 and H-1B
University of Rochester Medical Center ProgramRochester	New York	2	0%	29.4%	J-1
University of South Florida Morsani/Moffitt Cancer Center ProgramTampa	Florida	2	20%	22.7%	J-1
University of Southern California/Los Angeles General Medical Center (USC/LA General) ProgramLos Angeles	California	1	0%		J-1
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine ProgramSan Antonio	Texas	2	0%		J-1
University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center ProgramHouston	Texas	6	4%	20.9%	J-1
University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals ProgramGalveston	Texas	2	0%	33.3%	J-1
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ProgramDallas	Texas	3	8%		J-1
University of Utah Health ProgramSalt Lake City	Utah	2	0%	23.3%	J-1
University of Washington ProgramSeattle	Washington	2	20%	25.3%	H-1B
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics ProgramMadison	Wisconsin	3	0%		J-1
UPMC Medical Education ProgramPittsburgh	Pennsylvania	2	50%		J-1 and H-1B
Vanderbilt University Medical Center ProgramNashville	Tennessee	2	8.3%	35.5%	None
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System ProgramRichmond	Virginia	2	14.3%		J-1
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ProgramWinston-Salem	North Carolina	2	0%	24.3%	J-1
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium ProgramSt Louis	Missouri	4	6%		None
West Virginia University School of Medicine ProgramMorgantown	West Virginia	1	0%	8.5%	J-1
Yale-New Haven Medical Center ProgramNew Haven	Connecticut	4	0%		J-1
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell ProgramNew Hyde Park	New York	2	28.6%	45.4%	J-1 and H-1B

Radiation Oncology residency at a glance

International medical graduates make up a median of 7% of residents in Radiation Oncology programs, and 22 programs have IMGs in at least a quarter of their positions. 86% of programs sponsor a visa (84.9% sponsor J-1 and 31.4% sponsor H-1B).

A typical Radiation Oncology program receives about 145 applications and invites 29.4% of applicants to interview. Across programs, the median USMLE Step 2 CK score of interviewed applicants is about 250.

States with the most programs

New York: 12
California: 11
Pennsylvania: 5
Texas: 5
Ohio: 4

How to choose Radiation Oncology programs as an IMG

Start with the programs that already train international medical graduates: a high IMG share is the clearest sign a program will review your application. Then check visa sponsorship if you need a J-1 or H-1B, and the program's Step 2 CK expectations and graduation-year limit.

Each program page shows these details along with interview rates, signal outcomes and contacts. To see which programs fit your own scores, visa needs and graduation year, build a personalized list.

Radiation Oncology residency FAQs

How many Radiation Oncology residency programs are there?

There are 86 ACGME-accredited Radiation Oncology residency programs in 37 states and territories, offering about 186 first-year positions.

Is Radiation Oncology IMG-friendly?

The median Radiation Oncology program has 7% international medical graduates among its residents, and 22 of 86 programs have at least 25% IMG residents. IMGs can match in Radiation Oncology, but focusing on the programs with the highest IMG share improves your chances. Use the table on this page to sort programs by their IMG share.

Which Radiation Oncology programs sponsor J-1 or H-1B visas?

86% of Radiation Oncology programs sponsor at least one visa: 84.9% sponsor J-1 and 31.4% sponsor H-1B. Filter the table on this page by visa to see every program that sponsors the visa you need.

What Step 2 CK score do I need for Radiation Oncology?

Across Radiation Oncology programs, the median USMLE Step 2 CK score of interviewed applicants is about 250. Scores vary a lot between programs, and many programs also set a minimum. Each program page shows that program's minimum and the score range of the applicants it interviewed.

How competitive is Radiation Oncology residency?

A typical Radiation Oncology program receives about 145 applications and interviews 29.4% of applicants. Applying to programs whose requirements and resident mix fit your profile matters more than applying to as many programs as possible.

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