2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$28,200
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 7,676 people earned their degree in other health professions, making the major the 102nd most popular in the United States. In , other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $45,318 and had an average of $29,247 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 848 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,813 and $41,594 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 173 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. That schools that top this list have a program in other health professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree health professions students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Goodwin College landed the #1 spot on the list. Goodwin is located in East Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 165 associates’s health professions degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berkshire Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region. Berkshire Community College is located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 associates’s health professions degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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%.
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- *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.
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