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2023 Most Popular Dentistry Schools in North Carolina

2 Colleges
$107,169 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dentistry School for You

Dentistry is the #15 most popular major in North Carolina with 135 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the healthcare 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Most Popular Dentistry Schools in North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in North Carolina to see which ones were the most popular programs for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Dentistry program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for dentistry majors pursuing a .

Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the most popular school for dentistry students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

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#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

The excellent 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. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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Best Dentistry Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, dentistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Dentistry Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Dentistry 6,770

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Michal Jarmoluk.

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