The U.S. Department of Justice opened 15 new civil rights investigations into medical schools’ admissions practices over potential race discrimination, the agency announced Thursday. DOJ did not name the institutions immediately, but said each receiving probe receives millions of dollars in federal funding. The new investigations follow DOJ’s prior admissions-related actions involving Yale University and UCLA, where the department alleged civil rights violations by giving Black and Hispanic applicants an advantage. DOJ’s stated enforcement posture is aligned with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and recent Supreme Court constraints on race-conscious admissions. Medical education is likely to be a high-focus compliance domain as DOJ evaluates how schools justify selection decisions and how they monitor outcomes. For medical school leadership, the immediate impact is increased compliance burden, internal legal review, and changes to admissions documentation and decision processes. DOJ framed the enforcement as a response to concerns that elite medical schools may be prioritizing class demographics over training pipelines, with Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s civil rights division, citing that risk in a statement.