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 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Medicine Schools in Louisiana ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 492 degrees in medicine to qualified students.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Medicine Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college 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.
Every student who is interested in medicine needs to check out Tulane University of Louisiana. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New Orleans.
There were roughly 185 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Tulane in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in medicine has to check out Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans. LSU Health - New Orleans is a small public university located in the large city of New Orleans.
There were roughly 192 medicine students who graduated with this degree at LSU Health - New Orleans in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in medicine has to take a look at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport. Located in the medium-sized city of Shreveport, LSU Health - Shreveport is a public university with a small student population.
There were roughly 115 medicine students who graduated with this degree at LSU Health - Shreveport in the most recent year we have data available.
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).