2024 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky

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 2 schools in Kentucky 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 291 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medicine students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medicine 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medicine related body.

Our full 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.

More Ways to Rank Medicine Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in Kentucky

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for medicine students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Kentucky Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

130 Annual Graduates

University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in medicine. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Kentucky

2

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

161 Annual Graduates

University of Louisville is a good choice for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine. UofL is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Louisville.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Louisville

Best Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Medicine Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	934
North Carolina	190	532
Georgia	190	565
Virginia	182	533
Mississippi	154	137
Tennessee	150	446
Louisiana	146	492
Alabama	139	249
South Carolina	135	381
Arkansas	74	177
West Virginia	61	192

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Medicine Related Rankings by Major

Medicine is one of 3 different types of Medicine programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.