2025 Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Ohio

If you pursue a doctor's degree in health professions, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 18 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for health professions students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,285 doctor's degrees in health professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Health Professions School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of health professions for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality health professions program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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.

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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 health professions students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other health professions 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 professions 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 professions related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Health Professions Schools

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

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health Professions in Ohio

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

10 Top Ohio Schools for a Doctorate in Health Professions

1

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

374 Annual Graduates

Case Western Reserve University is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cleveland.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Case Western Reserve University

2

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

411 Annual Graduates

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is a good option for students pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. UC is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Cincinnati.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

3

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

685 Annual Graduates

Ohio State University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in health professions. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Columbus.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Ohio State University - Main Campus

4

Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Otterbein University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in health professions. Located in the large suburb of Westerville, Otterbein is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Otterbein University

5

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

36 Annual Graduates

UDayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Dayton.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Dayton

6

Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

324 Annual Graduates

OHIO Athens is a fairly large public university located in the town of Athens.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Ohio University - Athens Campus

7

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

81 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Cleveland, Cleveland State University is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Cleveland State University

8

Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

116 Annual Graduates

Located in the town of Ada, ONU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Ohio Northern University

9

University of Toledo
Toledo, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

314 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Toledo, University of Toledo is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Toledo

10

The University of Findlay
Findlay, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

131 Annual Graduates

Located in the town of Findlay, Findlay is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from The University of Findlay

Best Health Professions Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Health Professions Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	29	1,621
Michigan	29	2,424
Illinois	29	4,306
Wisconsin	27	1,360

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Health Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	1,332
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	614
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	610
Nursing	318
Dentistry	204
Communication Sciences	74
Optometry	62
Public Health	29
Health & Medical Administrative Services	17
Other Health Professions	13

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.