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Match Day 2025
Published March 14, 2025; updated March 21, 2025
This week, students from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy learned where they will train for residency as part of the Match Day process. UNC Adams School of Dentistry students have matched in recent months.
After years of hard work, nearly 200 Carolina medical students gathered March 21 for their Match Day celebration, participating in a decades-old tradition of finding their match at the same time as others around the nation.
On March 19, pharmacy students did the same.
Keep scrolling to learn more about Match Day and the Carolina students preparing for it.
How does Match Day work?
During their final year of medical school, students complete applications, essays and interviews with residency programs across the country. The students then rank their top choices for residency, and residency programs do as well. The National Resident Matching Program algorithm matches students and programs based on these mutual rankings. All graduating medical students in the U.S. learned their results at the same time on March 21.
In 2025, the UNC School of Medicine had a 96% match rate and sent 69 students to serve patients across North Carolina. 2025 also marked the second year Match Day was celebrated at Roper Hall, which opened in the fall of 2023.
Doctor of Pharmacy students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy maintained the school’s No. 1 national postgraduate Year 1 residency match rate in 2025. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ranking is for U.S. schools of pharmacy with 75 or more students registering to match.
Learn more about UNC Eshelman’s top ranking.
I want to bring everything that UNC has taught me into my career — from compassionate care to servant leadership to bridging bench-to-bedside research.
I’m ready to become a doctor and make a difference in patients’ lives.
Alisa Suen-Wallach, fourth-year UNC School of Medicine student
While medical and pharmacy students wait for their matches, students at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry learned theirs recently.
Meet matching students
Medical student turns soccer into service
Charlie Roethling, a founder of Health Professional Athletics, hopes to match in internal medicine on March 21.
Dental student’s path includes research, leadership, service
Raven Selden will continue her family’s dentistry legacy with a master’s in orthodontics.
Teamwork shapes a future surgeon
Ricardo Crespo Regalado intends to match into general surgery at Match Day on March 21.
Small-town native finds a home in community pharmacy
Doctor of Pharmacy student Allison Eikenberry wants to connect with patients through her work.
