2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in New Jersey (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Health Sciences & Services is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 31,648 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 New Jersey, there were 1,380 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,822 and $20,150 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,871 and $95,555 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great health sciences and services programs and 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in New Jersey (With Aid)

#1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$32,132 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid list. Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s health science students in 2019-2020.

Rutgers New Brunswick did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Health Sciences & Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Rutgers University - New Brunswick are $32,132.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services (With Aid)

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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