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2023 Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

3 Colleges
$58,470 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.

There are so many healthcare programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Most Popular Medicine Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains 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 colleges and universities below are the most popular for medicine majors pursuing a .

Our 2023 rankings named University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus the most popular school in the Rocky Mountains Region for medicine students. CU Anschutz is a very large public school located in the large city of Denver.

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#2

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Out of the 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the # 2 spot on the list. U of U is a fairly large public school located in the city of Salt Lake City.

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#3

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Idaho is a great place for medicine students. U of I is a fairly large public school located in the town of Moscow.

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Best Medicine Colleges by State

Explore the best medicine colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 438
Utah 113
Idaho 0

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

Majors Similar to Medicine

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 3 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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