2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in California (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in California 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 California, there were 5,920 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,100 and $22,589 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 228 health sciences and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in health sciences and services. 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health sciences and services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in California (With Aid)

#1

California State University - Dominguez Hills

Carson, California

#2 in overall quality

$17,884 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Dominguez Hills. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. Carson, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health science degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CSUDH, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CSUDH are $17,884, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full CSUDH Health Sciences & Services Report

#2

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. University of California - Davis is a public institution located in Davis, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 47 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Davis also made our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at UC Davis are $28,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Health Sciences & Services at University of California - Davis

#3

Touro University Worldwide

Los Alamitos, California

#6 in overall quality

$9,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$38,289 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Science Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Touro University Worldwide landed the #3 spot on the list. Touro University Worldwide is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Alamitos, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 65 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

TUW also made our “Best Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #6. Average graduate tuition and fees at TUW are $9,000, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at TUW

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’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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