2025 Best General Physiology Doctor's Degree Schools
7Colleges in the United States
135Doctor's Degrees
General Physiology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #126 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Physiology Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 135 doctor's degrees in general physiology during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Physiology School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general physiology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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.
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 general physiology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general physiology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general physiology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general physiology students working on their doctor's degree.
The general physiology 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 General Physiology Doctor's Degree Schools.
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Yale University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in general physiology. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in general physiology from Yale University
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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.