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2023 Best Medicine Schools in New York

13 Colleges
$62,832 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Medicine School for You

With 2,722 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, medicine is the #11 most popular major in New York.

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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Medicine Schools in New York to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 13 schools in New York to see which programs offered the best educational experiences for students.

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2023 Best Medicine Schools in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best for medicine majors pursuing a .

Top 10 Best Medicine Schools

Our analysis found Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to be the best school for medicine students who want to pursue a degree in New York. Located in the city of New York, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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Out of the 13 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Albany Medical College landed the # 2 spot on the list. AMC Albany is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Albany.

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Out of the 13 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University landed the # 3 spot on the list. SUNY Downstate is a small public school located in the large city of Brooklyn.

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The excellent programs at Weill Cornell Medical College helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in New York. Located in the city of New York, Weill Cornell Medical College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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#5

New York University

New York, NY

Out of the 13 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the # 5 spot on the list. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

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#6

New York Medical College

Valhalla, NY

New York Medical College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Medicine Schools in New York ranking. Located in the suburb of Valhalla, New York Medical College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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Upstate Medical University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for medicine students. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of Syracuse, SUNY Upstate Medical University is a public school with a small student population.

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#8

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

University of Rochester came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Medicine Schools in New York ranking. Located in the midsize city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

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The City College of New York did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for medicine students. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the city of New York, CCNY is a public school with a large student population.

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Columbia University in the City of New York came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Medicine Schools in New York ranking. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

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Best Medicine Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 2,307
Maryland 270
New Jersey 614
District of Columbia 471

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

Majors Similar to Medicine

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 13 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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