2025 Best Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy Doctor's Degree Schools
15Colleges in the United States
7,884Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #5 in popularity, osteopathic medicine/osteopathy is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 15 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for osteopathic medicine/osteopathy students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 7,884 doctor's degrees in osteopathic medicine/osteopathy during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of osteopathic medicine/osteopathy for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality osteopathic medicine/osteopathy program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 good 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.
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 osteopathic medicine/osteopathy students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other osteopathic medicine/osteopathy 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized osteopathic medicine/osteopathy related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for osteopathic medicine/osteopathy students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.