2025 Best Health/Medical Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
31Doctor's Degrees
Health/Medical Psychology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #273 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Health/Medical Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 doctor's degrees in health/medical psychology during the <nil> academic year.
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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 health/medical psychology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health/medical psychology 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 health/medical psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health/medical psychology students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Health/Medical Psychology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Health/Medical Psychology 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.