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2023 Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region

13 Colleges
$53,856 Avg Salary
$16,640 Avg Student Debt

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In 2020-2021, 28,629 medicine students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #9 most popular in the country.

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The Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 13 schools in the Southwest Region to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Medicine program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Medicine Colleges.

Our analysis found The University of Texas Medical Branch to be the most popular school for medicine students who want to pursue a degree in the Southwest Region . Located in the town of Galveston, UTMB Galveston is a public college with a small student population.

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The excellent programs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the large city of Houston, UTHealth is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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The excellent programs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the city of San Antonio, UT Health San Antonio 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 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Southwestern is a small public school located in the large city of Dallas.

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Out of the 13 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor College of Medicine landed the # 5 spot on the list. Baylor College of Medicine is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Houston.

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#6

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular medicine programs. University of Arizona is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Tucson.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular medicine programs. Located in the large city of Lubbock, TTUHSC is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center ranked #8 on this year’s Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region list. UOHSC is a small public school located in the city of Oklahoma City.

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Texas A&M University - College Station ranked #9 on this year’s Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the city of College Station.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center - El Paso did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for medicine students. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the large city of El-Paso, TTUHSC - El Paso is a public school with a fairly small student population.

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Best Medicine Colleges by State

Explore the best medicine schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,974
Arizona 473
Oklahoma 269
New Mexico 229

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

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.

  • 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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