2024 Best Medicine Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
471Medicine Degrees Awarded
Medicine is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #42 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Medicine Schools in District of Columbia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 471 degrees in medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The medicine program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Medicine rankings. For our Best Overall Medicine School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Medicine Schools in District of Columbia list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the medicine degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in medicine needs to take a look at Georgetown University. Georgetown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were about 181 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat George Washington University if you wish to pursue a degree in medicine. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were about 164 medicine students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Howard University if you wish to pursue a degree in medicine. Howard is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington. This university ranks 6th out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 126 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Howard in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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The medicine program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Medicine rankings. For our Best Overall Medicine School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
