If you pursue a degree in medicine, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #42 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of medicine. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 293 degrees in medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of medicine school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Medicine School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicine Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the medicine degrees they offer, see the list below.
Yale University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. Located in the medium-sized city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were roughly 92 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat University of Connecticut if you want to pursue a degree in medicine. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 107 medicine students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in medicine needs to check out Quinnipiac University. Located in the suburb of Hamden, Quinnipiac is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 6th out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 94 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Quinnipiac in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of medicine school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Medicine School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
