Alternative Medicine & Systems is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #96 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 420 master's degrees in alternative medicine & systems during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on alternative medicine & systems students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other alternative medicine & systems students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt alternative medicine & systems students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized alternative medicine & systems related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for alternative medicine & systems students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Alternative Medicine & Systems Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Alternative Medicine & Systems in the Far Western US Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in alternative medicine & systems.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Alternative Medicine
It is hard to beat Bastyr University if you want to pursue a master's degree in alternative medicine & systems. Bastyr University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Kenmore.
Alternative Medicine & Systems master's degree recipients from Bastyr University get an earnings boost of about $4,307 above the average income of alternative medicine & systems graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
