Health & pre-med fields at Wake Forest
Wake Forest graduates about 88 pre-med & health fields majors a year, 6% of its graduating class. That puts it 19th of 830 schools we score for pre-med & health fields, a standout program at 88 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $80,000 four years out, 1.39× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $320 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Where pre-med & health fields happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Manchester Hall (Mathematics and Computer Science).
Named buildings on the campus map: Dorm 26 · Academic 17 · Athletics 4 · Dining 3 · Arts 2 · Chapel 1.
Nearby in the pre-med & health fields ranking
Other strong majors at Wake Forest
- Philosophy & religion 94 · #19
- History 93 · #19
- Political science & IR 91 · #39
- Sociology & anthropology 90 · #40
- English & writing 89 · #37
- Communications & media 89 · #40
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Wake Forest with every school we score in pre-med & health fields. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (35%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (15%) and the size of the program (10%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.