2025 Best Health Sciences & Services Doctor's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in health sciences & services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #87 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of health sciences & services. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 256 doctor's degrees in health sciences & services during the <nil> academic year.

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Choosing a Great Health Sciences & Services School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of health sciences & services for getting your doctor's degree school matters. 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.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on health sciences & services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other health sciences & services 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt health sciences & services 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 health sciences & services related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health sciences & services students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Health Sciences & Services Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health Sciences & Services in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in health sciences & services.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Health Science

1

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston, MA

30 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in health sciences & services. Located in the city of Boston, MCPHS University is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in health sciences & services from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

2

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL

37 Annual Graduates

$105,792 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in health sciences & services needs to look into Nova Southeastern University. NUS Florida is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Fort Lauderdale.

Health Sciences & Services doctor's degree recipients from Nova Southeastern University receive an earnings boost of around $13,699 over the average earnings of health sciences & services majors.

More information about a doctorate in health sciences & services from Nova Southeastern University

3

Pacific University
Forest Grove, OR

38 Annual Graduates

Pacific University is a great decision for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in health sciences & services. Located in the large suburb of Forest Grove, Pacific is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in health sciences & services from Pacific University

4

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg, PA

11 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in health sciences & services. East Stroudsburg University is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of East Stroudsburg.More information about a doctorate in health sciences & services from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Health Sciences & Services by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Health Sciences & Services Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Health Sciences & Services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences	238
General Health & Wellness	18

Majors Similar to Health Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	29,168
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	16,935
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	13,508
Nursing	13,058
Dentistry	6,928
Chiropractic	2,698
Optometry	1,780
Communication Sciences	1,034
Public Health	1,011
Alternative Medicine & Systems	978

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo. More about our data sources and methodologies.