2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 31,648 people earned their degree in health sciences and services, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, health sciences and services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,571 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 148 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,950 and $33,145 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 58 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,912 and $18,026 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health sciences and services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina associate degree health science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services (Income $0-$30k) in North Carolina

#1

University of Mount Olive

Mount Olive, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$14,912 Average Net Price

$58,286 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mount Olive landed the #1 spot on the list. Mount Olive, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s health science degrees to 58 students in 2019-2020.

UMO also made our “Best Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $14,912 for North Carolina Associate Degree Health Science students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UMO.

Read more about Health Sciences & Services at UMO

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

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