If you plan on getting your master's degree in health sciences & services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #93 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Health Sciences & Services Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 53 master's degrees in health sciences & services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Health Sciences & Services School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of health sciences & services for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality health science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health sciences & services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of health sciences & services students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for health sciences & services to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health sciences & services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health sciences & services students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Health Sciences & Services Schools
The health science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Health Sciences & Services Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Health Sciences & Services in the New England Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for health sciences & services students seeking a a master's degree.
Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Health Science
It is hard to beat Merrimack College if you wish to pursue a master's degree in health sciences & services. Merrimack is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of North Andover.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the health science program earn an average of $52,599 in their early career salary.
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).