2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is the 287th most popular major in the country with 1,918 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 116 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 90 acupuncture and oriental medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine. That schools that top this list have a program in acupuncture and oriental medicine in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree acupuncture and oriental medicine students.
Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwest Acupuncture College - Santa Fe. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. Southwest Acupuncture College - Santa Fe is a small private for-profit school situated in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It awarded 8 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Southwest Acupuncture College - Santa Fe Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to 28 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at PIHMA College & Clinic
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 22 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Health and Science University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. THSU is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 18 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2021-2022.
Read more about Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Texas Health and Science University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Med. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region. American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Med is a small school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 13 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Med Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Report
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s acupuncture and oriental medicine degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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