2024 Best Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Master's Degree Schools

When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality sits in the middle of the road, ranking #686 out of 1172 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Master's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 43 master's degrees in patient safety and healthcare quality during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on patient safety and healthcare quality students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of patient safety and healthcare quality students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized patient safety and healthcare quality related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for patient safety and healthcare quality students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality in the United States

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for patient safety and healthcare quality students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Schools for a Master's in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

1

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

43 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat University of Alabama at Birmingham if you wish to pursue a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality. UAB is a fairly large public university located in the city of Birmingham.More information about a master’s in patient safety and healthcare quality from University of Alabama at Birmingham

2

Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality needs to look into Thomas Jefferson University. Thomas Jefferson University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in patient safety and healthcare quality from Thomas Jefferson University

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality by Region

View the Best Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Master's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Related Rankings by Major

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality is one of 12 different types of Public Health programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Public Health	10,873
Health Services Administration	1,359
Other Public Health	1,076
Public Health Education and Promotion	965
Environmental Health	694
International Public Health/International Health	477
Community Health and Preventive Medicine	273
Health/Medical Physics	159
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene	90
Behavioral Aspects of Health	78

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.