2025 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in medicine, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 21 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for medicine students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 6,385 doctor's degrees in medicine during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Medicine School for Your Doctor's Degree

The medicine doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality medicine program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medicine students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medicine students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt medicine 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 medicine related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medicine students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Medicine Schools

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 Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Medicine in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

132 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in medicine. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Pennsylvania

2

New York University
New York, NY

136 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in medicine has to take a look at New York University. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.More information about a doctorate in medicine from New York University

3

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

197 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Georgetown University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in medicine. Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Georgetown University

4

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

255 Annual Graduates

Temple University is a good decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in medicine. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Temple University

5

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

111 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Johns Hopkins University

6

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY

190 Annual Graduates

$78,551 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large city of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate is a public university with a small student population.

Those medicine students who get their doctor's degree from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University earn $6,326 more than the typical medicine graduate.

More information about a doctorate in medicine from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

7

George Washington University
Washington, DC

186 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from George Washington University

8

University of Maryland - Baltimore
Baltimore, MD

140 Annual Graduates

UMB is a medium-sized public university located in the large city of Baltimore.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Maryland - Baltimore

9

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

102 Annual Graduates

University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Rochester.More information about a doctorate in medicine from University of Rochester

10

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

332 Annual Graduates

Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in medicine from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Best Medicine Colleges by State

Explore the best medicine schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	2,307
New York	174	2,549
Maryland	119	270
New Jersey	115	614
District of Columbia	81	471

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Medicine Related Rankings by Major

Medicine is one of 34 different types of Health Professions programs to choose from.

Medicine Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	4,437
Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy	1,798
Podiatric Medicine/Podiatry	150

Majors Similar to Medicine

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	2,971
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	2,389
Nursing	1,731
Dentistry	1,628
Optometry	255
Communication Sciences	186
Public Health	166
Chiropractic	134
Other Health Professions	63
Health & Medical Administrative Services	49

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.