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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 506 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. 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.
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 Missouri list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest 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.
It's hard to beat Washington University in St Louis if you want to pursue a degree in medicine. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 105 medicine students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
Saint Louis University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Louis. This university ranks 7th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 173 medicine students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you wish to pursue a degree in medicine. Mizzou is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #124 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were about 124 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent data year.
University of Missouri - Kansas City is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in medicine. UMKC is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Kansas City. This university ranks 12th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 104 medicine students who graduated with this degree at UMKC 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. 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.
