Best Medical Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Medical Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Medical Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of medical science for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 medical science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medical science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 much debt medical science students go into to obtain their doctor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for medical science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

Sad to say, we don't have enough facts to form a ranking of the top quality colleges for medical science in the Southwest Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer medical science and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Medical Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Medical Science ranking.

Best Medical Science Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	8
Arizona	119	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medical Science

Medical Science is one of 34 different types of Health Professions programs to choose from.

Medical Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Medical Scientist	12
Clinical and Translational Science	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Medical Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	2,874
Nursing	1,594
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	1,545
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	1,294
Dentistry	535
Chiropractic	396
Optometry	235
Alternative Medicine & Systems	116
Communication Sciences	101
Public Health	85

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.