2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 36,762 people earned their degree in health sciences & services, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. In , health sciences & services graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $35,967 and had an average of $24,125 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,739 health sciences & services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,197 and $22,090 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 health sciences & services graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,157 and $118,033 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health sciences & services. That schools that top this list have a program in health sciences & services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Sciences & Services in Pennsylvania

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East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s health science degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health Sciences & Services at East Stroudsburg University

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

• *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.

Credits

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