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2022 Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k

2 Ranked Colleges
416 Degrees Awarded
$30,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 27,562 people earned their degree in medicine, making the major the 54th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, medicine graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $54,795 and had an average of $169,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 416 medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,450 and $203,251 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 416 medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,800 and $117,458 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in medicine. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great medicine programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the medicine program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky doctor’s degree medicine students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Medicine (Income $48-$75k) in Kentucky

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 136 degrees to qualified doctorate’s medicine students in 2019-2020.

UK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Kentucky Medicine Report

#2

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisville. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k. University of Louisville is a public institution located in Louisville, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 157 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UofL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Louisville are $27,575, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Medicine at University of Louisville

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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