2024 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington

Medicine is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major 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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 478 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree

The medicine doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality medicine program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medicine students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medicine students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt medicine students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medicine related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Medicine Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Washington ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in Washington

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine.

Top Washington Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA

285 Annual Graduates

University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a wonderful decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. UW Seattle is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Seattle.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Washington - Seattle Campus

2

Washington State University
Pullman, WA

56 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine has to take a look at Washington State University. Wazzu is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Pullman.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Washington State University

3

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
Yakima, WA

137 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine needs to check out Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. Located in the suburb of Yakima, PNWU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly small student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Best Medicine Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Medicine Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	180	1,756
Oregon	107	158
Nevada	84	242
Hawaii	53	68

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Medicine Related Rankings by Major

Medicine is one of 34 different types of Health Professions programs to choose from.

Medicine Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	341

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	315
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	289
Alternative Medicine & Systems	132
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	131
Dentistry	70
Communication Sciences	22
Public Health	20
Medical Science	7
Medical Illustration & Informatics	4
Mental & Social Health Services	1

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.