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Most Popular Schools for Orthodontics/Orthodontology Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the advanced study of the guidance of growing dental structures and the correction of misalignments, disproportionate growth, and traumas caused by genetics, disease, injuries, and dysfunctional behaviors. Includes instruction in craniofacial growth and development, malocclusion, design and fabrication of orthodontic appliances, craniofacial alignment, physiological function and analysis, cephalometrics, model analysis, space analysis, surgical orthodontics, cleft lip and palate, and treatment planning and management.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Jacksonville University 22 2% $54,868
2 Saint Louis University 15 1% $61,018
3 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 14 1% N/A
4 Seton Hill University 14 3% $51,432
5 Boston University 12 0% $72,618
6 University of Southern California 12 0% $74,825
7 University at Buffalo 11 0% $27,758
8 University of Iowa 10 0% $24,239
9 University of Illinois at Chicago 10 0% $30,866
10 University of Detroit Mercy 10 1% $41,226
11 University of Pennsylvania 10 0% $74,408
12 Loma Linda University 10 1% N/A
13 Roseman University of Health Sciences 9 2% N/A
14 University of Rochester 9 0% $72,721
15 University of the Pacific 8 1% $66,971
16 Tufts University 8 0% $73,500
17 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 8 0% $33,503
18 Oregon Health & Science University 8 1% N/A
19 Columbia University in the City of New York 7 0% $76,856
20 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 7 0% $30,298
21 Nova Southeastern University 7 0% $50,597
22 Case Western Reserve University 6 0% $67,332
23 University of Louisville 6 0% $27,980
24 Texas A & M University-College Station 6 0% $29,506
25 Temple University 5 0% $33,004
26 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 5 0% $32,443
27 A T Still University of Health Sciences 5 1% N/A
28 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 5 0% $27,638
29 Marquette University 5 0% $58,057
30 University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center 4 1% N/A
31 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 4 0% N/A
32 University of Missouri-Kansas City 3 0% $24,116
33 University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences 2 0% N/A
34 University of Nebraska Medical Center 2 0% N/A

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Orthodontics/Orthodontology program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.