2023 Best Value Medicine Schools in Alabama
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Medicine 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Medicine Schools in Alabama ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Alabama 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.
Best Alabama Schools for Affordable Quality in Medicine
Our 2023 rankings named University of Alabama at Birmingham the best value school in Alabama for medicine students. UAB is a fairly large public school located in the city of Birmingham.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UAB are $8,568 a year.
In addition to its great value ranking, UAB is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Medicine Schools in Alabama list.
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The excellent programs at University of South Alabama helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best medicine schools in Alabama. USA is a fairly large public school located in the city of Mobile.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USA are $8,756 a year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, USA also did well on our Best Medicine Schools in Alabama list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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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.