Largest veterinary schools by degrees awarded
34 veterinary schools in the fifty states and DC awarded 3,818 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count. Ohio State University-Main Campus awarded the most, 164.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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Veterinary schools by state
28 of the fifty states and DC have at least one, ranked by the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees their veterinary schools awarded; each links to its own ranking. 23 have none in NCES’s file: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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| Rank | State | Veterinary schools |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 2 |
| 2 | Arizona | 2 |
| 3 | Texas | 2 |
| 4 | New York | 2 |
| 5 | Tennessee | 2 |
| 6 | Alabama | 2 |
| 7 | Ohio | 1 |
| 8 | Iowa | 1 |
| 9 | Colorado | 1 |
| 9 | Georgia | 1 |
| 11 | Pennsylvania | 1 |
| 12 | Illinois | 1 |
| 13 | Washington | 1 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 1 |
| 15 | Kansas | 1 |
| 15 | Virginia | 1 |
| 17 | Florida | 1 |
| 18 | Louisiana | 1 |
| 19 | Missouri | 1 |
| 20 | Michigan | 1 |
| 21 | Mississippi | 1 |
| 22 | Oklahoma | 1 |
| 23 | Massachusetts | 1 |
| 24 | North Carolina | 1 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | 1 |
| 26 | Oregon | 1 |
| 27 | Indiana | 1 |
| 28 | Maryland | 1 |
| Alaska | None | |
| Arkansas | None | |
| Connecticut | None | |
| Delaware | None | |
| District of Columbia | None | |
| Hawaii | None | |
| Idaho | None | |
| Kentucky | None | |
| Maine | None | |
| Montana | None | |
| Nebraska | None | |
| Nevada | None | |
| New Hampshire | None | |
| New Jersey | None | |
| New Mexico | None | |
| North Dakota | None | |
| Rhode Island | None | |
| South Carolina | None | |
| South Dakota | None | |
| Utah | None | |
| Vermont | None | |
| West Virginia | None | |
| Wyoming | None |
What this data cannot show
- A veterinary school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 01.8001, Veterinary Medicine, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- Every institution in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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