2024 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana

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.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 492 doctor's degrees in medicine to qualified students.

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• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of medicine for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to medicine students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of medicine students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for medicine to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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 schools for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in Louisiana

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

Top Louisiana Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

185 Annual Graduates

Tulane University of Louisiana is a great choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Tulane University of Louisiana

2

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

192 Annual Graduates

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in medicine. LSU Health - New Orleans is a small public university located in the large city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

3

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Shreveport, LA

115 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in medicine. Located in the medium-sized city of Shreveport, LSU Health - Shreveport is a public university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

Best Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	1,212
Virginia	127	1,144
Georgia	126	565
North Carolina	115	684
Mississippi	113	228
Tennessee	102	680
Alabama	98	404
South Carolina	91	381
Kentucky	87	430
Arkansas	58	314
West Virginia	49	370

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medicine

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Medicine has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medicine Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	492

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	231
Nursing	147
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	100
Dentistry	69
Communication Sciences	21
Public Health	19
Mental & Social Health Services	12
Medical Science	3

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.