2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Other Health Professions is the 100th most popular major in the country with 7,767 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,856 and had an average of $27,421 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 268 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $14,800 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other health professions programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other health professions program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Northeastern State University

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

#3 in overall quality

$7,614 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeastern State University is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s health professions degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NSU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northeastern State University is $7,614 for southwest region bachelor’s degree health professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full NSU Other Health Professions Report

#2

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Weatherford, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$9,746 Average Net Price

$31,996 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. SWOSU is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 32 bachelors’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree health professions students whose families make $0-$30k list, SWOSU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University is $9,746 for southwest region bachelor’s degree health professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Southwestern Oklahoma State University Other Health Professions Report

#3

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$26,718 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Health Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 40 bachelors’s health professions degrees in 2019-2020.

SMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Southern Methodist University is $26,718 for southwest region bachelor’s degree health professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at Southern Methodist University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (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.

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