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2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$34,085 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,572 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Medicine School for You

Medicine is one of the most popular subjects to study in North Carolina. With 684 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 10th out of all the majors we track 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 Value Medicine Schools in North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for medicine students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Medicine

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for medicine students. ECU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Greenville.

ECU undergraduate students pay an average of $7,297 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent programs at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in North Carolina. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNC Chapel Hill are $9,028 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNC Chapel Hill is ranked #2 for overall quality for medicine in North Carolina.

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#3

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC

The excellent programs at Wake Forest University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in North Carolina. Located in the city of Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Wake Forest University are $59,770 per year.

Wake Forest University also made our Best Medicine Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #3.

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#4

Duke University

Durham, NC

The excellent programs at Duke University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in North Carolina. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Duke are $60,244 a year.

Duke did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Medicine Schools in North Carolina list.

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Best Value Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Medicine Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 1,144
Florida 1,218
Georgia 565
Tennessee 680
Kentucky 430
Louisiana 492
Alabama 404
South Carolina 381
Mississippi 228
Arkansas 314
West Virginia 370

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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 4 schools only.

  • 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.

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