Louisiana·Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations·SOC 29-1229

Best Physician, All Other programs in Louisiana, ranked by enrollment

All physicians not listed.

3 schools in Louisiana run programs that feed this job, graduating 512 people a year. The job pays a median of $350,920 in Louisiana across about 4,740 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledAllergistPhysicianUrologistHospitalistPhysiatristImmunologistTeam PhysicianMD (Medical Doctor)
Graduates / yr
512
in Louisiana
Median pay · Louisiana
$350,920
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
4,740
people employed
Schools
3
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
86%
across those schools
Median net price
$33,106
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Louisiana that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Louisiana that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Louisiana (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Louisiana page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 51.1201In Louisiana
512
100.0%
3$33,290$23,488

Top 3 schools in Louisiana

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 3 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
New Orleans, LA Public · 1 feeder programs
193Medicine
2Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
164Medicine86%$33,10614%
3Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Shreveport, LA Public · 1 feeder programs
155Medicine

All 3 schools in Louisiana

Every school in Louisiana with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Louisiana that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New OrleansNew OrleansPublic1931
Tulane University of LouisianaNew OrleansPrivate not-for-profit1641
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - ShreveportShreveportPublic1551

What physicians, all other earn in Louisiana

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Louisiana
$350,920
Mean annual
$312,630
Jobs in state
4,740
What the range looks like
10th pct$71,980Median$350,92090th pct$463,270
Versus the national median
+32.0%

U.S. median $265,930. Louisiana pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.11×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA
$413,620median
1,060 jobs
Alexandria, LA
$349,010median
160 jobs
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA
$394,170median
340 jobs
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA
$355,390median
290 jobs
Hammond, LA
$332,610median
100 jobs
Lake Charles, LA
$284,440median
60 jobs
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
$315,350median
260 jobs
Monroe, LA
$293,170median
180 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.5%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
9,600
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
8,600
340,700 → 349,300
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
Plus internship/residency

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Physicians, All Other page.

How to become a Physician, All Other

Job zone 5 of 5 · SVP 8.0 and above
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
On-the-job training
Internship/residency

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Top skills

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The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Louisiana

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 25 majors mapped to Physicians, All Other2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.1201Medicine
  • 51.1202Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • 51.1403Pain Management(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0101Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Program, General(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0105Family Medicine/Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0106Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0113Internal Medicine/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0116Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0118Medical Genetics and Genomics/Maternal-Fetal Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0121Pediatrics/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0122Pediatrics/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0125Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0199Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0203Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0205Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0206Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0208Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0209Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0210Pain Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0212Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0213Sports Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0215Telemedicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0216Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0218Women's Health Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0299Multiple-Pathway Medical Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing physicians, all other programs in Louisiana.

What degree do you need to become a Physician, All Other?+

Doctoral or professional degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Medicine, which awarded 512 degrees in Louisiana in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Physician, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Medicine. Together they graduate about 512 people a year in Louisiana.

How much do physicians, all other earn in Louisiana?+

The median is $350,920 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 32.0% above the U.S. median of $265,930. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for physicians, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +2.5% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 9,600 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Louisiana?+

3 institutions in Louisiana reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do physicians, all other work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Allergist, Physician, Urologist, Hospitalist, Physiatrist, Immunologist among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-1229.

Programs in LouisianaMedicine

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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