2024 Best Health/Medical Psychology Schools in Virginia
3Colleges in Virginia
13Health/Medical Psychology Degrees Awarded
Health/Medical Psychology is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #792 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Health/Medical Psychology Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 13 degrees in health/medical psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of health/medical psychology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Health/Medical Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Health/Medical Psychology Rankings by Degree Level
The health/medical psychology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Health/Medical Psychology Schools in Virginia.
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Best Schools for Health/Medical Psychology in Virginia
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the health/medical psychology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in health/medical psychology. VCU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Richmond. A Best Colleges rank of #240 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means VCU is a great university overall.
There were about 3 health/medical psychology students who graduated with this degree at VCU in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Averett University if you wish to pursue a degree in health/medical psychology. Located in the town of Danville, AU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 42nd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 6 health/medical psychology students who graduated with this degree at AU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Virginia State University if you want to pursue a degree in health/medical psychology. Located in the large suburb of Petersburg, Virginia State is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 60th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 4 health/medical psychology students who graduated with this degree at Virginia State in the most recent year we have data available.
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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).