2021 Best Health Professions Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region
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37,306Bachelor's Degrees
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Finding the Best Health Professions Schools for Non-Traditional Students
For this year's Best Health Professions Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region ranking, we looked at 60 colleges that offer a bachelor's in health professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health professions programs as well as strong support for students classified as non-traditional.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health professions program at the school, affordability, and non-traditional population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 Health Professions Schools for Non-Traditional Students list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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2021 Best Health Professions Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for non-traditional students studying health professions.
Top 10 Best Health Professions Schools for Non-Traditional Students
The University of Texas at Arlington has taken the #1 spot in this year's health professions ranking for non-traditional students. Located in the large city of Arlington, UT Arlington is a public school with a fairly large student population. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, UT Arlington has also earned the #6 rank in our Best Colleges for Health Professions in the Southwest Region ranking.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.4%. 17,309 of UT Arlington students are exclusively distance learners. There are roughly 22,217 part time students in attendance at UT Arlington.
Grand Canyon University comes in at #2 in this year's ranking. Grand Canyon University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the city of Phoenix.
The student loan default rate at Grand Canyon University is lower than is typical, just 1.5% of students default in three years. 79,865 of Grand Canyon University students are exclusively distance learners. 80,777 students are part time.
New Mexico Highlands University earned the #3 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the remote town of Las Vegas, New Mexico Highlands University is a public school with a small student population.
The student loan default rate at New Mexico Highlands University is lower than is typical, just 3.5% of students default in three years. 1,449 of New Mexico Highlands University students are exclusively distance learners. There are roughly 1,042 part time students in attendance at New Mexico Highlands University.
University of North Texas earned the #4 spot in our 2021 rankings. UNT is a fairly large public school located in the city of Denton. UNT also claimed a spot on our Best Colleges for Health Professions in the Southwest Region list. It's in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
About 1.8% of UNT students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 20,194 students at UNT that take at least one class online. About 12,105 of the students at UNT are attending part time.
Texas Woman's University landed the #5 spot in our 2021 best health professions schools for non-traditional students. TWU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Denton.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.5%. 6,914 students at TWU are exclusively online. 7,329 of TWU students are attending part time.
University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #6 spot in our 2021 best health professions schools for non-traditional students. Located in the large city of Phoenix, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.
About 2.6% of UOPX - Arizona students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. 85,576 students at UOPX - Arizona are exclusively online.
Southwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #7 spot in our 2021 best health professions schools for non-traditional students. SWOSU is a small public school located in the town of Weatherford.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 2.4%. There are approximately 1,912 students at SWOSU that take at least one class online. 1,114 students are part time.
Our rankings recognize University of Arizona as the #8 school in this year's rankings. University of Arizona is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Tucson. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, University of Arizona has also earned the #7 rank in our Best Colleges for Health Professions in the Southwest Region ranking.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.6%. Approximately 18,254 students take at least one class online at University of Arizona. 12,642 of University of Arizona students are attending part time.
University of New Mexico - Main Campus comes in at #9 in this year's ranking. Located in the city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public school with a fairly large student population. UNM also claimed a spot on our Best Colleges for Health Professions in the Southwest Region list. It's in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 2.6%. There are approximately 8,254 students at UNM that take at least one class online. 7,459 of UNM students are attending part time.
Our rankings recognize MSU Texas as the #10 school in this year's rankings. Located in the medium-sized city of Wichita Falls, MSU Texas is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.7%. Approximately 2,099 students take at least one class online at MSU Texas. 1,878 students are part time.
Here are some additional great schools for Southwest Region non-traditional students studying Health Professions that almost earned our Best Health Professions Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region award.
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).
