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Most Popular Schools for Bioethics/Medical Ethics Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the application of ethics, religion, jurisprudence, and the social sciences to the analysis of health care issues, clinical decisionmaking, and research procedures. Includes instruction in philosophical ethics, moral value, medical sociology, theology, spirituality and health, policy analysis, decision theory, and applications to problems such as death and dying, therapeutic relationships, organ transplantation, human and animal subjects, reproduction and fertility, health care justice, cultural sensitivity, needs assessment, professionalism, conflict of interest, chaplaincy, and clinical or emergency procedures.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Case Western Reserve University 49 2% $67,332
2 Oregon State University 36 0% $26,892
3 Loyola University Chicago 34 1% $61,328
4 University of Pennsylvania 34 0% $74,408
5 Columbia University in the City of New York 28 0% $76,856
6 Harvard University 27 0% $71,650
7 Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences 23 22% N/A
8 Duke University 22 0% $74,339
9 University of Mary 18 2% $29,290
10 Creighton University 17 1% $54,952
11 University of Richmond 15 1% $67,020
12 Temple University 15 0% $33,004
13 Albany Medical College 14 18% N/A
14 Clarkson University 14 1% $68,112
15 Trinity International University-Illinois 12 3% $46,510
16 Houston Baptist University 12 2% $46,340
17 Wake Forest University 11 1% $71,638
18 Northeast Ohio Medical University 10 56% N/A
19 St. Thomas University 10 2% $49,276
20 University of Rochester 9 0% $72,721
21 Northwestern University 9 0% $74,649
22 Johns Hopkins University 8 0% $71,901
23 Loyola Marymount University 8 0% $67,369
24 Medical College of Wisconsin 7 11% N/A
25 Yeshiva University 6 0% $62,075
26 Emory University 6 0% $69,502
27 University of South Dakota 5 0% $22,856
28 Loma Linda University 5 1% N/A
29 Drew University 5 1% $57,230
30 Duquesne University 5 0% $54,364
31 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 4 0% $27,476
32 Saint Louis University 4 0% $61,018
33 Purdue University Fort Wayne 2 0% $22,200
34 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 1 0% $22,537
35 Washington State University 1 0% $27,484
36 Ohio State University-Main Campus 1 0% $27,367

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Bioethics/Medical Ethics 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.