Ranked #42 in popularity, medicine is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 532 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for medicine schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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 North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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The schools below may not offer all types of medicine degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Duke University is a great option for students interested in a degree in medicine. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were approximately 114 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent data year.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were about 194 medicine students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent year we have data available.
Wake Forest University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in medicine. Wake Forest University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Winston-Salem. This university ranks 4th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 144 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Wake Forest University in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in medicine has to check out East Carolina University. ECU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Greenville. This university ranks 7th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 80 medicine students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent data year.
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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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for medicine schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
