2024 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
14
Colleges in the Far Western US Region
1,923
Doctor's Degrees
Medicine is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 14 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,923 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of medicine for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to medicine students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of medicine 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medicine related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The 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 Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.