a doctor's degree in bioethics/medical ethics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #91 out of 306 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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 182 doctor's degrees in bioethics/medical ethics during the <nil> academic year.
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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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to bioethics/medical ethics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of bioethics/medical ethics students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt bioethics/medical ethics 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 bioethics/medical ethics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for bioethics/medical ethics students working on their doctor's degree.
The medical ethics 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 Bioethics/Medical Ethics Doctor's Degree Schools.
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William Carey University is a good option for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in bioethics/medical ethics. Located in the small city of Hattiesburg, William Carey University is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Soon after graduation, medical ethics doctorate recipients typically make an average of $85,666 in their early careers.
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
