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2023 Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

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Finding the Best Medicine Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, medicine students earned 1,974 degrees and certificates from a Texas school, making the subject the 9th in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 9 schools in Texas 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 Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas

The colleges and universities below are the best for medicine majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Top Texas Schools for a Doctorate in Medicine

Our 2023 rankings named Baylor College of Medicine the best school in Texas for medicine students working on their doctor’s degree. Baylor College of Medicine is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Houston.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas Medical Branch helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in Texas. Located in the fringe town of Galveston, UTMB Galveston is a public college with a small student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the large city of Houston, UTHealth is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the city of Lubbock, TTUHSC is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. UT Southwestern is a small public school located in the city of Dallas.

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for medicine students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the large city of San Antonio, UT Health San Antonio is a public school with a small student population.

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The University of Texas at Austin ranked #7 on this year’s Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public school with a very large student population.

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Texas A&M University - College Station came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas ranking. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of College Station.

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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for medicine students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the city of Edinburg, UT Rio Grande Valley is a public school with a very large student population.

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Best Medicine Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Medicine Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 473
Oklahoma 269
New Mexico 229

Medicine is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 16,952

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 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).

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