2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

Medicine is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 481 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree

The medicine doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality medicine program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 medicine students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medicine students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medicine related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Medicine Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in District of Columbia

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for medicine students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top District of Columbia Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

197 Annual Graduates

Georgetown University is a great option for students interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Georgetown University

2

George Washington University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

186 Annual Graduates

George Washington University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in medicine. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from George Washington University

3

Howard University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

98 Annual Graduates

Howard University is a good choice for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. Howard is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Howard University

Best Medicine Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Medicine Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	1,791
Pennsylvania	311	1,275
Maryland	190	270
New Jersey	165	445

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Medicine Related Rankings by Major

Medicine is one of 3 different types of Medicine programs to choose from.

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.