2025 Best Veterinary Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
4Colleges in the Plains States Region
497Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #9 in popularity, veterinary medicine is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for veterinary medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 497 doctor's degrees in veterinary medicine during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Veterinary Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of veterinary medicine for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality veterinary medicine program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 veterinary medicine students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other veterinary 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 veterinary 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 veterinary medicine related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for veterinary medicine students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Veterinary Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of veterinary medicine for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality veterinary medicine program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
