If you plan on majoring in veterinary medicine, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #153 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
There was only one school in New York to review for the 2025 Best Veterinary Medicine Schools in New York ranking.
The veterinary medicine 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 Veterinary Medicine Schools in New York.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the veterinary medicine degree levels they offer.
It is difficult to beat Cornell University if you want to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the veterinary medicine program earn around $100,161 in their early career salary.
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).
