If you pursue a doctor's degree in chiropractic, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #12 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for chiropractic students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 529 doctor's degrees in chiropractic to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on chiropractic students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of chiropractic students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt chiropractic 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 chiropractic related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for chiropractic students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Chiropractic Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Chiropractic in the Southeast Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for chiropractic students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Chiropractic
Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in chiropractic needs to check out Life University. Located in the small city of Marietta, Life is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in chiropractic from Life University
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).