2024 Best Orthodontics/Orthodontology Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
36Orthodontics/Orthodontology Degrees Awarded
If you're seeking a degree in orthodontics/orthodontology, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #910 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for orthodontics/orthodontology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 degrees in orthodontics/orthodontology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Orthodontics/Orthodontology School
The orthodontics/orthodontology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Orthodontics/Orthodontology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for orthodontics/orthodontology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Orthodontics/Orthodontology Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Orthodontics/Orthodontology Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Orthodontics/Orthodontology in the Great Lakes Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the orthodontics/orthodontology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Orthodontics/Orthodontology
It's hard to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you want to pursue a degree in orthodontics/orthodontology. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #29 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were roughly 7 orthodontics/orthodontology students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in orthodontics/orthodontology has to check out Case Western Reserve University. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Cleveland. A Best Colleges rank of #63 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Case Western is a great university overall.
There were about 6 orthodontics/orthodontology students who graduated with this degree at Case Western in the most recent year we have data available.
Marquette University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in orthodontics/orthodontology. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Marquette is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 5 orthodontics/orthodontology students who graduated with this degree at Marquette in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Detroit Mercy is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in orthodontics/orthodontology. Detroit Mercy is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Detroit. This university ranks 18th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 10 orthodontics/orthodontology students who graduated with this degree at Detroit Mercy in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).