2023 Best Doctor's Degree Schools
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The Best Doctor's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 749 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.
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Top Doctor's Degree Schools in the United States
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Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for students working on their doctor’s degree.
Since the graduate programs at MIT are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Princeton University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools in the United States.
Online graduate courses are available at Princeton, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 53% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stanford University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Stanford does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 10% took at least some of their classes online.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
Rice does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. During the 2019-2020 year, about 86% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Management and Technology. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
University of Management and Technology does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 98% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Northwestern University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
Online graduate courses are available at Northwestern, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 2% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Harvard University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Harvard. During the 2019-2020 year, about 96% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Carnegie Mellon University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
Carnegie Mellon does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 6% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Brown University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
Online graduate courses are available at Brown, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 59% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
University of Pennsylvania landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
UPenn does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 74% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Vanderbilt University landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Vanderbilt does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 67% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
University of Virginia - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #12 on the list.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at University of Virginia. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 75% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Georgetown University ranked #13 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
Since the graduate programs at Georgetown are online, the school is an excellent choice for graduate students who need more flexibility than what is offered at some other schools.
The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #14 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
Online graduate courses are available at The Graduate Center, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 100% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Texas Christian University landed the #15 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at TCU. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 82% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
University of Chicago came in at #16 in this year’s edition of the Best Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
Dartmouth College landed the #17 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
Online graduate courses are available at Dartmouth, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 57% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
With a ranking of #18, Claremont Graduate University did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working on their doctor’s degree.
Claremont Graduate University does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 67% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Cornell University landed the #19 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Cornell. In fact, around 85% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
With a ranking of #20, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working on their doctor’s degree.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Georgia Tech does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 88% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
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Union Institute & University came in at #21 in this year’s edition of the Best Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
Union is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
University of California - Berkeley landed the #22 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
Online graduate courses are available at UC Berkeley, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 90% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Duke University landed the #23 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Duke does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 2% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
University of Notre Dame landed the #24 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree programs.
Online graduate courses are available at Notre Dame, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 45% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Concordia University, Irvine ranked #25 on this year’s Best Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
Concordia University, Irvine is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
Rest of the Top 50 Best Doctor's Degree Schools in the United States
Not only did these schools make the top 50 list, but they also landed in the top 15% of this year’s ranking:
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Rest of the Top 15% Best Doctor's Degree Schools in the United States
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Honorable Mentions
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
References
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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