2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the New England Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Health and Wellness Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 5,951 people earned their degree in general health & wellness, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 329 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general health & wellness graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general health & wellness. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general health & wellness.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree health and wellness students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Health & Wellness in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the New England Region list. Merrimack is a private not-for-profit institution located in North Andover, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Health & Wellness at Merrimack
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health and Wellness Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Plymouth State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Plymouth, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health and wellness degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Health & Wellness at Plymouth State University
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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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