2024 Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Louisiana

If you pursue a doctor's degree in health professions, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 12 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for health professions students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,094 doctor's degrees in health professions to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Health Professions School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of health professions for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality health professions program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 health professions students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other health professions students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 much debt health professions 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 health professions related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health professions students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Health Professions Schools

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

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health Professions in Louisiana

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

10 Top Louisiana Schools for a Doctorate in Health Professions

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

202 Annual Graduates

Tulane University of Louisiana is a great decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. Tulane is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Tulane University of Louisiana

2

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

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

376 Annual Graduates

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans is a good decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. LSU Health - New Orleans is a small public university located in the large city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

3

University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

98 Annual Graduates

University of Louisiana at Monroe is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in health professions. Located in the city of Monroe, ULM is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Louisiana at Monroe

4

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. Located in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

5

Loyola University New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

18 Annual Graduates

Loyola New Orleans is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Loyola University New Orleans

6

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

145 Annual Graduates

XULA is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New Orleans.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Xavier University of Louisiana

6

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Louisiana Tech is a large public university located in the town of Ruston.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Louisiana Tech University

7

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of Lafayette, UL Lafayette is a public university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

8

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
Baton Rouge, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

57 Annual Graduates

FranU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

9

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

NSU is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Natchitoches.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Best Health Professions Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	29	3,725
Virginia	29	2,730
Georgia	28	2,018
Mississippi	28	656
South Carolina	28	1,055
North Carolina	26	2,134
Kentucky	26	1,505
Alabama	25	1,504
Tennessee	25	2,261
Arkansas	23	779
West Virginia	20	776

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Health Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	492
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.