2025 Best Medicine Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
476Medicine Degrees Awarded
$65,617Avg Early-Career Salary
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.
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 degree. Combined, these schools handed out 476 degrees in medicine to qualified students.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Medicine Schools in District of Columbia list to help you make the college 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 Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a degree in medicine. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Georgetown is a great university overall.
There were roughly 197 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Georgetown in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the medicine degree program at Georgetown University get $2,951 more than the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
George Washington University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. GWU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington. This university ranks 2nd out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 164 medicine students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year. Those medicine students who get their degree from George Washington University earn $2,658 more than the typical medicine grad.
Howard University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in medicine. Located in the large city of Washington, Howard is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 115 medicine students who graduated with this degree at Howard in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the medicine program make about $66,233 in their early career salary.
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.
