2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

Medicine is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 690 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of medicine 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 medicine students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of medicine students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 easy is it for medicine to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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 schools for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 North Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in North Carolina

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

Duke University
Durham, NC

117 Annual Graduates

$67,570 Median Starting Salary

Duke University is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Soon after graduating, medicine doctorate recipients generally make an average of $67,570 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a doctorate in medicine from Duke University

2

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

199 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine needs to look into University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

77 Annual Graduates

East Carolina University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in medicine. ECU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Greenville.More information about a doctorate in medicine from East Carolina University

4

Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC

156 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine needs to check out Campbell University. Campbell is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the fringe town of Buies Creek.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Campbell University

Best Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	1,212
Virginia	127	1,144
Georgia	126	565
Mississippi	113	228
Louisiana	103	492
Tennessee	102	680
Alabama	98	404
South Carolina	91	381
Kentucky	87	430
Arkansas	58	314
West Virginia	49	370

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medicine

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

Medicine Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	534
Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy	156

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	528
Nursing	470
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	374
Dentistry	139
Public Health	27
Health & Medical Administrative Services	24
Alternative Medicine & Systems	24
Communication Sciences	23
Movement & Mind-Body Therapies	8
Medical Illustration & Informatics	4

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.