2023 Best Value Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Alabama
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Medicine Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, medicine students earned 404 degrees and certificates from an Alabama school, making the subject the 7th in the state.
Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Best Value Medicine Doctor's Degree Schools in Alabama ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alabama to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for medicine students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
Best Alabama Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Medicine
Our analysis found University of Alabama at Birmingham to be the best value school for medicine students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Alabama. UAB is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UAB are $8,100 per year.
UAB also took the #4 spot in our Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in Alabama rankings.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of South Alabama is a great value for medicine students working on their doctor’s degree. USA is a large public school located in the city of Mobile.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USA are $8,426 per year.
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Explore all the Best Value Medicine Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Florida | 1,218 |
North Carolina | 684 |
Tennessee | 680 |
Kentucky | 430 |
Georgia | 565 |
West Virginia | 370 |
Virginia | 1,144 |
Louisiana | 492 |
Mississippi | 228 |
South Carolina | 381 |
Arkansas | 314 |
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Medicine Related Majors for Medicine
One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, medicine has other similar majors worth exploring.
Medicine Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Medicine | 20,665 |
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.