23 best medical schools whose graduates earn high starting salaries

The Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore were among some of the best medical schools in the U.S. where students obtained higher than average starting physician salaries, according to InsiderMonkey.

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For the list, InsiderMonkey determined the healthcare occupations with the highest salaries using data from Career Trend. The publication then determined which college major resulted in the highest salaries, as well as the colleges and universities that graduated students who went on to earn higher than average salaries, citing data from Surgery Schools, U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Here are the 23 best medical schools that graduated students with the highest starting salaries.

  1. Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine
  2. Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, N.C.)
  3. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
  4. University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor)
  5. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  6. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  7. Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta)
  8. UC San Diego School of Medicine (La Jolla, Calif.)
  9. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (Nashville, Tenn.)
  10. UC San Francisco School of Medicine
  11. University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore)
  12. Keck School of Medicine of USC (Los Angeles)
  13. University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine (Galveston)
  14. University of Minnesota Medical School (Minneapolis)
  15. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, N.J.)
  16. Wake Forest School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
  17. Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York City)
  18. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
  19. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago)
  20. Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, Conn.)
  21. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore)
  22. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Madison)
  23. University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle)

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