If you plan on getting your master's degree in medical science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #136 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for medical science students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 master's degrees in medical science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master'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 medical science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other medical science students want to attend this school to pursue a master'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 easy is it for medical science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medical science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for medical science students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Medical Science Master's Degree Schools in Ohio list to help you make the college decision.
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It is difficult to beat University of Cincinnati - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a master's degree in medical science. UC is a very large public university located in the city of Cincinnati.
After graduating, medical science master's recipients typically make about $201,510 at the beginning of their 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
