2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Plains States Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,676 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Plains States region, there were 534 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,885 and $15,278 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other health professions.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified masters’s health professions students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UMN Twin Cities Other Health Professions Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Iowa is a public institution located in Iowa City, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Health Professions at Iowa
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the Plains States Region. Saint Louis University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full SLU Other Health Professions Report
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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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