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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Medicine Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 692 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. 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.
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.
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 Schools in Massachusetts.
More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.
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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.
Any student pursuing a degree in medicine has to check out Harvard University. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Harvard is a great university overall.
There were about 160 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in medicine has to check out Tufts University. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 196 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in medicine needs to take a look at Boston University. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 167 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in medicine needs to take a look at University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester. UMass Medical School is a small public university located in the city of Worcester.
There were roughly 169 medicine students who graduated with this degree at UMass Medical School in the most recent data year.
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. 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.
