2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 5,115 people earned their degree in bioethics/medical ethics, making the major the 133rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,334 and had an average of $18,277 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 235 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,712 and $18,277 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioethics/medical ethics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their bioethics/medical ethics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the Southeast Region

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Campbell University
Buies Creek, North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Campbell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified doctorate’s medical ethics students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Campbell University

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Bellarmine University
Louisville, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellarmine University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s medical ethics students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Bellarmine U

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.