2022 Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Medicine is the 54th most popular major in the country with 27,562 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

This year’s “Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the medicine program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Medicine in Kentucky

#1

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$27,575 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisville landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and it awarded 157 doctorate’s medicine degrees in 2019-2020.

UofL also took the #2 spot in our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UofL are $27,575.

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#2

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Kentucky is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 136 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kentucky are $33,216.

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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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