Indiana·Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations·SOC 29-1214

Best Emergency Medicine Physician programs in Indiana, ranked by enrollment

Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients.

2 schools in Indiana run programs that feed this job, graduating 497 people a year. The job pays a median of $347,060 in Indiana across about 1,170 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledPhysicianEmergency PhysicianAttending Emergency PhysicianEmergency Medicine Physician (EM Physician)IntensivistTrauma DoctorEmergency DoctorAttending Physician
Graduates / yr
497
in Indiana
Median pay · Indiana
$347,060
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,170
people employed
Schools
2
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
60%
across those schools
Median net price
$23,371
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Indiana that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

2 programs in Indiana that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Indiana (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Indiana page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 51.1201In Indiana
354
71.2%
1$33,290$23,488
2
CIP 51.1202In Indiana
143
28.8%
1$33,290$23,488

Top 2 schools in Indiana

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 2 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Indiana University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN Public · 1 feeder programs
354Medicine54%76%
2Marian University
Indianapolis, IN Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
143Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy67%$23,37195%

All 2 schools in Indiana

Every school in Indiana with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Indiana that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Indiana University - IndianapolisIndianapolisPublic3541
Marian UniversityIndianapolisPrivate not-for-profit1431

What emergency medicine physicians earn in Indiana

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Indiana
$347,060
Mean annual
$360,570
Jobs in state
1,170
What the range looks like
10th pct$220,790Median$347,06090th pct$486,870
Versus the national median
+3.4%

U.S. median $335,550. Indiana pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.73×

Concentrated here: Indiana employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Indiana

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
$284,930median
490 jobs
Elkhart-Goshen, IN
avg
60 jobs
Fort Wayne, IN
avg
90 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.7%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
1,000
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
1,000
36,100 → 37,100
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
Plus internship/residency

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Emergency Medicine Physicians page.

How to become a Emergency Medicine Physician

Job zone 5 of 5 · SVP 8.0 and above
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
On-the-job training
Internship/residency

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Top skills

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The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Indiana

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 15 majors mapped to Emergency Medicine Physicians2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.1201Medicine
  • 51.1202Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • 61.0103Emergency Medicine/Anesthesiology Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0104Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0110Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0111Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0120Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0202Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0217Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0601Emergency Medicine Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0602Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0603Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0699Emergency Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1907Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1908Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing emergency medicine physicians programs in Indiana.

What degree do you need to become an Emergency Medicine Physician?+

Doctoral or professional degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Medicine, which awarded 354 degrees in Indiana in 2024-25, 71.2% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Emergency Medicine Physician?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 2 programs to this occupation. The largest are Medicine. Together they graduate about 497 people a year in Indiana.

How much do emergency medicine physicians earn in Indiana?+

The median is $347,060 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 3.4% above the U.S. median of $335,550. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for emergency medicine physicians growing?+

BLS projects a +2.7% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 1,000 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Indiana?+

2 institutions in Indiana reported graduates from at least one of the 2 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do emergency medicine physicians work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Physician, Emergency Physician, Attending Emergency Physician, Emergency Medicine Physician (EM Physician) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-1214.

Emergency Medicine Physicians in other statesNew YorkPennsylvaniaTexasCaliforniaFloridaIllinoisVirginiaMichigan
Programs in IndianaMedicine

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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