2025 Best Medical Scientist Schools in the Southwest Region

A degree in medical scientist is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #484 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. 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 Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for medical scientist students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 degrees in medical scientist annually.

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• Best Overall Medical Scientist Schools List

Medical Scientist Rankings by Degree Level

The medical scientist 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 Medical Scientist Schools in the Southwest Region. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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Best Schools for Medical Scientist in the Southwest Region

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 medical scientist degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Southwest Region Schools in Medical Scientist

1

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in medical scientist has to check out The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. UTHealth is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Houston.More information about a degree in medical scientist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

50.0% Growth in Graduates

University of Arizona is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in medical scientist. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in medical scientist from University of Arizona

Best Medical Scientist Colleges by State

Explore the best medical scientist colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	905	22
Arizona	670	8

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medical Scientist

One of 5 majors within the Medical Science area of study, Medical Scientist has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Medical Scientist

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical and Translational Science	12

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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.