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2023 Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

2 Colleges
$101,504 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 135 degrees and certificates were awarded to dentistry students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #49 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best doctor's degree programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Dentistry Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Dentistry Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in Dentistry

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the best school in North Carolina for dentistry students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at East Carolina University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best dentistry schools in North Carolina. ECU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Greenville.

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Best Dentistry Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 105
Florida 224
Georgia 96
Tennessee 146
Kentucky 186
Louisiana 69
Alabama 78
South Carolina 76
Mississippi 35
West Virginia 46

One of 29 majors within the area of study, dentistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Dentistry

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Michal Jarmoluk.

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