2023 Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,564 people earned their degree in alternative medicine and systems, making the major the 167th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, alternative medicine and systems graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,138 and had an average of $24,035 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 1,275 alternative medicine and systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,228 and $32,103 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in alternative medicine and systems. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality alternative medicine and systems programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the alternative medicine and systems program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems (Income $30-$48k) in California

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Pacific College of Health and Science
San Diego, California

#2 in overall quality

$25,842 Average Net Price

$25,797 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Alternative Medicine Schools in California For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific College of Health and Science landed the #2 spot on the list. Pacific College San Diego is a small school located in San Diego, California that handed out 477 ’s alternative medicine degrees in 2020-2021.

Pacific College San Diego also took the #2 spot in our “Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Schools in California” ranking. It costs about $25,842 for California Alternative Medicine students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Pacific College of Health and Science.

Read full report on Alternative Medicine & Systems at Pacific College San Diego

• Best Value Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Colleges for Alternative Medicine & Systems (Income $30-$48k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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