2025 Best Veterinary Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Veterinary Medicine is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #9 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for veterinary medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 363 doctor's degrees in veterinary medicine during the 2021-2022 academic year.

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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 veterinary medicine students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of veterinary 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 veterinary 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 veterinary medicine related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Veterinary Medicine Schools

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

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Veterinary Medicine in the Southwest Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

144 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Texas A&M University - College Station if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in veterinary medicine from Texas A&M University - College Station

2

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, OK

103 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine needs to check out Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. OSU is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Stillwater.More information about a doctorate in veterinary medicine from Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Best Veterinary Medicine Colleges by State

Explore the best veterinary medicine colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	134
Arizona	119	108
Oklahoma	92	92

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Rankings in Majors Related to Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Medicine is one of 18 different types of Agriculture & Agriculture Operations programs to choose from.

Veterinary Medicine Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Veterinary Medicine	363

Most Popular Majors Related to Veterinary Medicine

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Animal Science	31
Plant Sciences	30
Agricultural Economics & Business	22
Soil Sciences	8
Food Science Technology	4
General Agriculture	2

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.