2022 Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Epidemiology is the 298th most popular major in the country with 2,180 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 343 epidemiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 314 epidemiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the epidemiology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Epidemiology in Massachusetts

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$50,654 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. Harvard University is a large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 102 masters’s epidemiology degrees in 2019-2020.

Harvard did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Epidemiology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard University are $50,654.

Full Harvard University Epidemiology Report

#2

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#3 in overall quality

$55,168 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. Medford, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s epidemiology degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

Tufts also took the #3 spot in our “Best Epidemiology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts are $55,168, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Epidemiology at Tufts University

#3

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Epidemiology Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 185 degrees to qualified masters’s epidemiology students in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #2 spot in our “Best Epidemiology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666.

Read more about Epidemiology at Boston U

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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

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 Ernst Haeckel.

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