Best Colleges for Pre-Med
Schools with strong Biology and Health Sciences programs, high graduation rates, and low debt, ranked for students on a medical track.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA · Private
Duke University
Durham, NC · Private
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Private
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Private
Georgetown University
Washington, DC · Private
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY · Private
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD · Private
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN · Private
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA · Public
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · Public
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI · Public
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · Private
Tufts University
Medford, MA · Private
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL · Public
Emory University
Atlanta, GA · Private
Northeastern University
Boston, MA · Private
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC · Public
University of Georgia
Athens, GA · Public
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI · Public
University of Maryland-College Park
College Park, MD · Public
Boston University
Boston, MA · Private
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX · Public
New York University
New York, NY · Private
Ohio State University-Main Campus
Columbus, OH · Public
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA · Public
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH · Private
Clemson University
Clemson, SC · Public
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA · Public
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA · Public
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL · Public
How this list is built
Schools with Biology (CIP 26) or Health Professions (CIP 51) in top majors and 55%+ graduation rate, ranked by grad rate and program size. For-profit schools are not included, and each list shows at most 30 schools.
Major data: IPEDS C2023_A. Graduation rate: IPEDS.
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