A degree in medicine is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #40 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Medicine Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 674 degrees in medicine annually.
Your choice of medicine school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for medicine schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicine Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of medicine degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Duke University if you wish to pursue a degree in medicine. Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were roughly 120 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, medicine degree recipients typically earn an average of $67,570 in the first five years of their career.
Any student pursuing a degree in medicine has to check out University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 185 medicine students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year. After graduation, medicine degree recipients typically earn an average of $63,519 in the first five years of their career.
East Carolina University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. ECU is a very large public university located in the small city of Greenville. This university ranks 7th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 84 medicine students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, medicine degree recipients generally make an average of $63,673 in their early careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in medicine needs to look into Campbell University. Campbell is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the fringe town of Buies Creek. This university ranks 49th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 148 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Campbell in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the medicine program earn about $61,520 in the first couple years of their career.
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).
Your choice of medicine school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for medicine schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
