2025 Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in West Virginia

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.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in West Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 762 doctor's degrees in health professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

The health professions doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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

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

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 health professions students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of health professions students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 easy is it for health professions to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health professions related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Health Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in West Virginia list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Health Professions in West Virginia

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

Top West Virginia Schools for a Doctorate in Health Professions

1

West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

292 Annual Graduates

West Virginia University is a good decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in health professions. WVU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Morgantown.More information about a doctorate in health professions from West Virginia University

2

Wheeling University
Wheeling, WV

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

37 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in health professions has to look into Wheeling University. Located in the small city of Wheeling, Wheeling University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Wheeling University

3

Marshall University
Huntington, WV

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

192 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in health professions needs to look into Marshall University. Marshall University is a large public university located in the small city of Huntington.More information about a doctorate in health professions from Marshall University

4

University of Charleston
Charleston, WV

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

42 Annual Graduates

University of Charleston is a wonderful choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in health professions. UC is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Charleston.More information about a doctorate in health professions from University of Charleston

Best Health Professions Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	29	3,725
Virginia	29	2,730
Georgia	28	2,018
Mississippi	28	656
South Carolina	28	1,055
North Carolina	26	2,134
Kentucky	26	1,505
Alabama	25	1,504
Tennessee	25	2,261
Louisiana	25	1,094
Arkansas	23	779

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Health Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	359
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	176
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	108
Nursing	68
Dentistry	49
Medical Science	1
Public Health	1

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.