2022 Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s

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In 2019-2020, 820 people earned their degree in anatomy, making the major the 483rd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 522 anatomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in anatomy. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality anatomy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the anatomy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree anatomy students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Anatomy

#1

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan

#3 in overall quality

$11,802 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Oakland is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 2 bachelors’s anatomy degrees in 2019-2020.

Oakland did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Anatomy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Oakland is $11,802 for Bachelor’s Degree Anatomy students.

Read more about Anatomy at Oakland

#2

University of California - San Diego

La Jolla, California

#2 in overall quality

$14,232 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - San Diego landed the #2 spot on the list. University of California - San Diego is a large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 417 bachelors’s anatomy degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree anatomy students list, UCSD has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Anatomy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UCSD is $14,232 for Bachelor’s Degree Anatomy students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Anatomy at UCSD

#3

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$27,020 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Anatomy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 30 bachelors’s anatomy degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke also took the #1 spot in our “Best Anatomy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $27,020 for bachelor’s degree anatomy students per year to attend Duke.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Anatomy at Duke University

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kelvin Song.

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