If you pursue a doctor's degree in chiropractic, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #12 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Chiropractic Doctor's Degree Schools in California ranking. If you would like to see more options to choose from, check out the Best Doctor's Degree Schools in the United States ranking..
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chiropractic Doctor's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Southern California University of Health Sciences is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in chiropractic. Located in the suburb of Whittier, SCU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the chiropractic program report average early career wages of $39,421.
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).
