If you pursue a doctor's degree in alternative medicine & systems, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #25 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of alternative medicine & systems. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 46 doctor's degrees in alternative medicine & systems during the 2020-2021 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to alternative medicine & systems students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other alternative medicine & systems students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt alternative medicine & systems students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized alternative medicine & systems related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for alternative medicine & systems students working on their doctor's degree.
The alternative medicine school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Alternative Medicine & Systems in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in alternative medicine & systems.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in Alternative Medicine
It is hard to beat National University of Health Sciences if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in alternative medicine & systems. Located in the large suburb of Lombard, National College of Chiropractic is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Doctorate students who receive their degree from the alternative medicine program earn around $34,686 for their early career.
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).
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