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2023 Most Popular Medicine Schools in the New England Region

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$60,975 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Medicine School for You

In 2020-2021, 28,629 medicine students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #7 most popular in the country.

It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Most Popular Medicine Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 10 schools in the New England Region 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 Medicine program at each school on the list.

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

#1

Tufts University

Medford, MA

Our 2023 rankings named Tufts University the most popular school in the New England Region for medicine students. Tufts is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Medford.

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Out of the 10 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester landed the # 2 spot on the list. UMass Medical School is a small public school located in the city of Worcester.

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#3

Boston University

Boston, MA

Out of the 10 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

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#4

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Medicine Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

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#5

Brown University

Providence, RI

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Medicine Schools in the New England Region list. Brown is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Providence.

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#6

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

With a ranking of #6, University of Vermont did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for medicine students. Located in the city of Burlington, UVM is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of Connecticut ranked #7 on this year’s Most Popular Medicine Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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#8

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

Dartmouth College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for medicine students. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the town of Hanover, Dartmouth is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

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#9

Quinnipiac University

Hamden, CT

Quinnipiac University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for medicine students. It came in at #9 on the list. Quinnipiac is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hamden.

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#10

Yale University

New Haven, CT

With a ranking of #10, Yale University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for medicine students. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

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Best Medicine Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 692
Connecticut 293
New Hampshire 99
Maine 174
Vermont 110
Rhode Island 120

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

Medicine Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Medicine 20,665

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 10 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).

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