If you plan on majoring in medicine, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #40 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of medicine. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 298 degrees in medicine annually.
The medicine 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 Medicine Schools in Connecticut.
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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 medicine degrees they offer, see the list below.
Quinnipiac University is a great option for students interested in a degree in medicine. Quinnipiac is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Hamden.
Those medicine students who get their degree from Quinnipiac University receive $3,899 more than the typical medicine grad.
Any student who is interested in medicine has to look into University of Connecticut. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the town of Storrs.
Degree recipients from the medicine degree program at University of Connecticut get $2,910 above the typical college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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).