2025 Best General Education Doctor's Degree Schools
31Colleges in the United States
2,501Doctor's Degrees
General Education is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #13 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 31 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general education students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 2,501 doctor's degrees in general education to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Education School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general education for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general education program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 general education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general education 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general education students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Education Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Notes and References
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of general education for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general education program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
