2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you pursue a doctor's degree in medicine, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of medicine. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 713 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2021-2022 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor'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 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt medicine 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 medicine related body.

Our complete 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in New Jersey

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

353 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine needs to take a look at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

2

Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ

297 Annual Graduates

$66,847 Median Starting Salary

Rowan University is a great decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in medicine. Rowan is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Glassboro.

Doctorate graduates who receive their degree from the medicine program earn around $66,847 in their early career salary.

More information about a doctorate in medicine from Rowan University

Best Medicine Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	2,307
New York	174	2,549
Maryland	119	270
District of Columbia	81	471

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Medicine Related Rankings by Major

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

Medicine Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	516
Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy	197

Majors Similar to Medicine

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	276
Nursing	213
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	178
Dentistry	126
Communication Sciences	24
Medical Illustration & Informatics	13
Public Health	8
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	7
Health Sciences & Services	5
Other Health Professions	5

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.