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About Medicine

Medicine programs prepare individuals for the independent professional practice of medicine, involving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses, injuries, and other disorders of the human body. Includes instruction in the basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, examination and diagnosis, patient communications, medical ethics and law, professional standards, and rotations in specialties such as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, neurology, ophthalmology, radiology, clinical pathology, anesthesiology, family medicine, and psychiatry.

New York awards the most Doctors degree professional practices in Medicine of all US states with 1,985 degrees being awarded last year. Students interested in Medicine can expect approximately 49% percent of their fellow classmates to be men and 51% percent to be women. Most students graduating in this field earn a Doctors degree professional practice. The average annual income for an undergraduate degree in Medicine is $38,300.

Popularity of Medicine Degrees in the U.S.
This heat map represents the states that have the highest percent of Medicine degrees compared to all other degrees awarded in that state.
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Careers

For Medicine majors, some of the most in demand jobs include Physicians, All Other, Family Medicine Physicians and General Internal Medicine Physicians. Not only that, Medicine graduates may find a top paying job, such as Anesthesiologists or Cardiologists.

Top Paying Careers

These are the highest paying careers for Medicine majors.

Student Demographics

Total Students
20,842
Female Students
10,687 (51%)
Male Students
10,155 (48%)
White (10,631, 51%)
Asian (4,529, 22%)
Hispanic or Latino (2,081, 10%)
Black or African American (1,455, 7%)
Race/ethnicity unknown (1,110, 5%)
Two or more races (732, 4%)
U.S. Nonresident (219, 1%)
American Indian or Alaska Native (53, <1%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (32, <1%)

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