2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Psychology
7
Ranked Colleges
48
Degrees Awarded
$29,900
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 338 people earned their degree in health/medical psychology, making the major the 792nd most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 health/medical psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in health/medical psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree health/medical psychology students.
Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Psychology
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northcentral University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major list. San Diego, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s health/medical psychology degrees to 31 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 1 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at Northcentral University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salve Regina University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major list. Salve Regina is located in Newport, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 12 masters’s health/medical psychology degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at Salve Regina University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina A & T State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major list. North Carolina A & T State University is a fairly large public school situated in Greensboro, North Carolina. It awarded 0 masters’s health/medical psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at North Carolina A & T State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Washington DC. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s health/medical psychology 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Washington DC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend LeTourneau University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major list. LETU is located in Longview, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s health/medical psychology degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at LeTourneau University
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Psychology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Touro College landed the #4 spot on the list. Touro is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 0 masters’s health/medical psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at Touro
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
