2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana

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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Louisiana 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 515 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2022-2023 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 quality 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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Louisiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in Louisiana

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

Top Louisiana Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

176 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Tulane University of Louisiana if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in medicine. Tulane is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Tulane University of Louisiana

2

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

196 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine has to take a look at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans. LSU Health - New Orleans is a small public university located in the city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

3

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Shreveport, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

143 Annual Graduates

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. Located in the midsize city of Shreveport, LSU Health - Shreveport is a public university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

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
Alabama	139	249
South Carolina	135	381
Kentucky	119	291
Arkansas	74	177
West Virginia	61	192

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medicine

One of 3 majors within the Medicine area of study, Medicine has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.