New Hampshire·Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations·SOC 29-1221

Best Pediatrician, General programs in New Hampshire, ranked by enrollment

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries in children.

1 schools in New Hampshire run programs that feed this job, graduating 83 people a year. The job pays a median of $273,410 in New Hampshire across about 210 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledPhysicianMedical Doctor (MD)General PediatricianGroup Practice PediatricianDoctorPediatristBaby DoctorPediatrician
Graduates / yr
83
in New Hampshire
Median pay · New Hampshire
$273,410
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
210
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
96%
across those schools
Median net price
$14,689
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in New Hampshire that lead to this job

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

1 programs in New Hampshire that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in New Hampshire (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 New Hampshire page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
183
100.0%
1$33,290$23,488

Top 1 schools in New Hampshire

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
83Medicine96%$14,6895%

All 1 schools in New Hampshire

Every school in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Dartmouth CollegeHanoverPrivate not-for-profit831

What pediatricians, general earn in New Hampshire

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

Median annual in New Hampshire
$273,410
Mean annual
$255,760
Jobs in state
210
What the range looks like
10th pct$104,030Median$273,41090th pct$334,800
Versus the national median
+30.2%

U.S. median $210,040. New Hampshire pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.21×

Concentrated here: New Hampshire employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in New Hampshire

Manchester-Nashua, NH
$287,040median
80 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+0.8%
Little or no change
Openings per year
1,200
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
400
46,400 → 46,800
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 Pediatricians, General page.

How to become a Pediatrician, General

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

Critical ThinkingSpeakingReading ComprehensionActive ListeningWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

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

Related careers in New Hampshire

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 25 majors mapped to Pediatricians, General2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.1201Medicine
  • 51.1202Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • 61.0115Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0119Pediatrics/Anesthesiology Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0120Pediatrics/Emergency 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)
  • 61.0123Pediatrics/Psychology/Child-Adolescent Psychology Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1703Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1901Pediatrics Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1902Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1903Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1904Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1905Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1906Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1907Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1908Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1909Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1910Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1911Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1912Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1913Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1914Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1915Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.1917Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing pediatricians, general programs in New Hampshire.

What degree do you need to become a Pediatrician, General?+

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 83 degrees in New Hampshire in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Pediatrician, General?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Medicine. Together they graduate about 83 people a year in New Hampshire.

How much do pediatricians, general earn in New Hampshire?+

The median is $273,410 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 30.2% above the U.S. median of $210,040. 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 pediatricians, general growing?+

BLS projects a +0.8% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, little or no change, with roughly 1,200 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in New Hampshire?+

1 institutions in New Hampshire 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 pediatricians, general work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Physician, Medical Doctor (MD), General Pediatrician, Group Practice Pediatrician among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-1221.

Programs in New HampshireMedicine

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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