2025 Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
322Medical Prep Degrees Awarded
$35,799Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in health/medical prep programs is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #104 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for health/medical prep programs students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 322 degrees in health/medical prep programs annually.
Choosing a Great Health/Medical Prep Programs School
Your choice of health/medical prep programs school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for health/medical prep programs schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Health/Medical Prep Programs Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Health/Medical Prep Programs in New Jersey
The schools below may not offer all types of medical prep degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in health/medical prep programs has to check out Essex County College. Essex is a medium-sized public college located in the city of Newark. A Best Colleges rank of #375 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Essex is a great college overall.
There were about 203 health/medical prep programs students who graduated with this degree at Essex in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the medical prep program earn about $26,596 in the first couple years of their career.
Every student who is interested in health/medical prep programs needs to check out Hudson County Community College. HCCC is a moderately-sized public college located in the large city of Jersey City. This college ranks 42nd out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 27 health/medical prep programs students who graduated with this degree at HCCC in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Atlantic Cape Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in health/medical prep programs. Located in the rural area of Mays Landing, Atlantic Cape Community College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 28th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 80 health/medical prep programs students who graduated with this degree at Atlantic Cape Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of health/medical prep programs school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for health/medical prep programs schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.