2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Professions Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 7,767 people earned their degree in other health professions, making the major the 100th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 511 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,788 and $12,078 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 65 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other health professions programs and cost less that 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. 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 Professions Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health Professions Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree health professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Ozarks Technical Community College

Springfield, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$7,057 Average Net Price

$26,611 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Health Professions Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozarks Technical Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s health professions degrees to 65 students in 2019-2020.

OTC also made our “Best Other Health Professions Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $7,057 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Health Professions students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Ozarks Technical Community College.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at Ozarks Technical Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions (Income $30-$48k)

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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