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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of chiropractic. Combined, these schools handed out 1,114 doctor's degrees in chiropractic to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Chiropractic School for Your Doctor's Degree
The chiropractic doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality chiropractic program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
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
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 chiropractic students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other chiropractic 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 easy is it for chiropractic to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
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 schools for chiropractic students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Chiropractic Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Chiropractic in the Plains States Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for chiropractic students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Doctorate in Chiropractic
Northwestern Health Sciences University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in chiropractic. Located in the small city of Bloomington, NWHSU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the chiropractic program report average early career earnings of $42,172.
It's difficult to beat Logan University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in chiropractic. Located in the suburb of Chesterfield, Logan University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
After graduating, chiropractic doctorate recipients usually make about $41,240 at the beginning of their careers.
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).