2025 Best Medical Science Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

If you plan on getting your master's degree in medical science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #136 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for medical science students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 139 master's degrees in medical science during the 2021-2022 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

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 master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medical science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of medical science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt medical science students go into to obtain their master'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 medical science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medical science students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Medical Science Schools

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

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Medical Science in the New England Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in medical science.

Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Medical Science

1

Brown University
Providence, RI

40 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in medical science has to check out Brown University. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Providence.More information about a master’s in medical science from Brown University

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

40 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in medical science needs to take a look at University of Vermont. Located in the small city of Burlington, UVM is a public university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in medical science from University of Vermont

Best Medical Science Colleges by State

Explore the best medical science schools for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	42
Connecticut	153	3
Rhode Island	127	35
Vermont	91	33

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Medical Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Medical Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medical Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Medical Scientist	139

Majors Similar to Medical Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	2,808
Public Health	1,911
Mental & Social Health Services	1,249
Health & Medical Administrative Services	1,029
Allied Health Professions	954
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	832
Communication Sciences	679
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	291
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	199
Medical Illustration & Informatics	135

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.